Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many credit Azru with bringing an end to the strife and attempting to forge a path for democracy in the Central American nation. After his election to the presidency in January 1996, Arzu continued negotiations with the Marxist guerrillas and led the way to a peace agreement in September...
Azru was in the United States on a "personal visit," according to Ricardo Viteri, press attache at the Guatemalan embassy. Amina Tirana, manager of the Central America project at the Harvard Institute for International Development, said he "was in the U.S. for multiple purposes" but not on a state visit...
...billion mouths to feed. These people will also need parking spaces, copies of Microsoft Windows and vacuum cleaners. Or maybe not. Virtually all of the 86 million new human beings per year -- 98 percent of them -- are being born to mothers in the developing world, where luxuries are rare. Central Africa leads the procreation race, followed by parts of Asia and Latin America...
...that expansion is happening, what does it do? The first issue it raises is credibility. Advocates of NATO expansion agree that the Central and East European states face no military threat; so to them, the whole thing looks risk-free. But if in a few years Poland gets into a scrape with Ukraine, say, or Hungary with Romania, would the U.S. be willing to send American forces or nuclear weapons to defend the new allies? Such spats will never happen, say the proponents...
Keeping Dobson and other Christian-right leaders happy has become the central preoccupation of Republican lawmakers. In the House, the legislative agenda is crammed with "pro-family" votes aimed at Dobson's constituency. Last week alone, the House voted to ban federal support of needle exchanges for drug addicts, passed a pilot program that would give public school children vouchers to attend private schools, and withdrew an $18 billion appropriation for the International Monetary Fund in a dispute with the Clinton White House over an antiabortion provision in a separate bill. And there's more to come. In June...