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...choosing. For now, though, the generals have urged Ecevit-who was visiting Macedonia while Sezer was in Egypt-not to resign and add to the air of instability. For its part, the U.S. applauded Ankara's decision to float the lira, saying its nato ally-an important bulwark in a volatile region-had been achieving important macroeconomic and structural goals and would continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Clash, Then A Crash | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

...Harvard earned a reputation as a bulwark against McCarthyism by refusing to fire faculty targeted by McCarthy and his colleagues...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FBI Files Show HBS Forced Out Leftist Professor | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

Rising tensions in the republic have rung alarm bells in Washington, which backs the Montenegrin government as a bulwark against Milosevic and which now must decide what to do if the Serbian President moves against the U.S. ally, either with overt military action or a covert coup. Montenegro may be a very small place, but top Clinton Administration officials are saying it has the potential to produce the most serious foreign policy crisis of the waning days of the current Administration--or the first days of the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slobo's Next Target | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...least everybody should. By this I mean the kind of buttered-scone Anglophiles who have supported middlebrow imports like Ballykissangel and Masterpiece Theatre through pledge drive after pledge drive: those self-hating televisual Tories who cling to genteel dramas and dotty, dated comedies as a Union Jacked bulwark against American TV's tendency to be so crude, so commercial...so American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Anarchy from the U.K. | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...that does not teach fashion design, warmly embraced Kawakubo and the art of fashion as a whole. He continued to address issues of the appropriateness of giving such an award to a sector of design that some dismiss as gossamer. What are shifts of flowing fabric next to the bulwark of a solid concrete wall whose construction follows logically from an architectural blueprint...

Author: By Amber K. Lavicka, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: making friends | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

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