Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soft money is one of the biggest loopholes that special interests have to get money to campaigns," said Eric Schmeltzer, communications associate at Public Campaign, a not-for-profit organization advocating campaign finance reform. "It is one of the biggest sources of buying influence and access to elected officials...
...conflicts, $2 billion B-2 bombers may be able to punish from the air but it takes G.I. boots on the ground to secure the peace. And according to the doctrine of the former Joint Chiefs Chairman, General Colin Powell, America should always go into these conflicts as the biggest, baddest force on the block. Go in to win, Powell said, and know how you're going to get out. These new conflicts--with their delicate ethnic nuances--make that harder. The Marines' mission in Kosovo is more war-as-car-repair, trying to keep both mechanic and customer from...
...Pentagon managed during the air war. So, Marines in Kosovo are on hair-trigger alert. "There's a big difference between combat and peacekeeping, and it can switch quickly from one to the other," says Sergeant Major John Sekula, the Marine battalion landing team's top enlisted man. "The biggest thing we have to focus on is the individual Marine's restraint--how he reacts to the looks, the taunting, the throwing-the-bird, the rock throwing." For the Marines, the basic rule in Kosovo is, De-escalate unless you're threatened--in which case, shoot...
...this, add the drug problem. On May 5, police stumbled onto the biggest drug bust in city history--a ton of cocaine valued at half a billion dollars--and arrested two Mexican nationals. A federal drug official told the Arizona Republic, "Phoenix has arrived...as a drug transshipment point...
...money was treated in your family. Was the emphasis on saving? Or did you live in a free-spending environment? Did you work as a teen? Pay your way through college? Values are often handed down. Understand your partner's financial roots. Talk about credit cards. One of the biggest causes of early divorce is one spouse's penchant for running up the balance while the other saves. Opposites attract. But can you live with...