Word: approach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ceremonial office of President. The shura thus managed to bridge, for the moment, the principal issue dividing the rebel side: whether post-Soviet Afghanistan should be governed as an Islamic revolutionary state, on the Iranian model, or as one that is moderate and secular. Shah strongly advocates the fundamentalist approach, and Muhammadi heads one of the moderate factions...
While choosing one exemplar of each approach for the interim government's two top posts would be an obvious attempt at compromise, it would not guarantee that Shah and Muhammadi will be able to work together smoothly. Shah, moreover, owes his position at least in part to strong backing from the Pakistani intelligence service, a source of support that is resented by many Afghans, who view it as meddling...
Conservatives, including business groups and anti-tax forces, were pleased. Senate Minority Leader David Locke was so taken with Voke's approach that he proposed making the Chelsea Democrat an honorary Republican...
Gilligan, a feminist scholar who wrote the groundbreaking work, In a Different Voice, said in a recent interview that HUCTW's organizing style, with its emphasis on personal communication and flexibility, is a classic example of women's distinctive approach...
...standard response from these young girls is that there must be another way to solve the problem, she says. "The same vision that this 10-year-old girl had has been considered naive and unworkable in the past," Gilligan says. But this is the exact approach that has been successful for HUCTW in organizing the women clerical workers, she says...