Word: buffers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet Union is a superpower in military might only. Perestroika has failed to resurrect a moribund economy. The USSR has lost its "security buffer" of Communist puppets in Eastern Europe. And now the Soviet Union itself is threatened by internal collapse. Glasnost has unleashed a torrent of independence movements...
...help in these areas, although Sununu is so resistant to second-guessing that such consultations are likely to take place only in secret. Meanwhile, Sununu is trying to soften his public image. As Bush barnstormed the country in search of Republican votes, Sununu haunted the so-called buffer zone, the narrow secure area between the podium and the audience, scanning the crowd for a small child. Finding one, he would take the tot by the hand and lead his little hostage off to meet the President, who on at least one occasion tripped over the toddler...
...occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip began 23 years ago quite differently from Iraq's annexation of Kuwait in August. Jordan attacked Israel and forfeited the West Bank. A series of Labor-led governments held on to the territory for two defensible reasons: as a buffer against another Arab onslaught and for bargaining leverage in negotiations...
...hilarious that a woman had once told him that rich kids have alcoholic parents too. While the assertion was certainly awkward, the "rich kids" I know with alcoholic parents might not find the situation as funny as he does. There are people who believe that money is an effective buffer against suffering, and on the most basic level of comfortable subsistence, they are correct. But to think that money acts as a buffer for all pain is a simplistic and materialist notion that only reinforces classist myths...
Haskell throws just enough tantrums to keep us from hating her perfection and offers observations at once trivial and absolutely true. She explains the bargain of married love: "We seek affection, closeness, intimacy, togetherness, a buffer against chaos, then wonder why we no longer experience the frisson of sexual longing." She fears she may become one of the women waiting in the halls who no longer have husbands "to consecrate the banalities of life, turn them into little miracles...