Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's Government Department, a longtime powerhouse of thought on American politics and international relations, is embroiled in academic controversy as a new approach to the social sciences threatens to split it into two opposing camps...
Traditionalists admit that rational choice has a place in political science, noting that it has worked well in some predictions about how American government works...
...Eighty percent of American citizens attacked by terrorists have been at the hands of Islamic militants," Emerson said. "We have to recognize this reality...
Maybe it would have been better simply to scuttle the vote in order to save face. Maybe the treaty should even have been ratified as a symbolic statement of American leadership in nuclear deescalation; it is, after all, better than nothing...
...prepare for a series of debates that will test the Democratic party?s stomach for liberalism, Al Gore and Bill Bradley are carving out their platforms. A week after Bradley one-upped Gore's plan to insure poor children by proposing $65 billion to provide health insurance to every American, the two presidential contenders squared off on child poverty. Gore, moving so close to the center he could easily high-five George W., published a proposal on Tuesday that focuses on strengthening families, mostly by attacking deadbeat dads. Bradley countered Thursday with a proposal that, if passed, would...