Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reluctant to tighten economic sanctions. If the Security Council did not act against Saddam, the U.S. could attack by itself, blasting Iraq with cruise missiles again to avoid getting pilots killed or captured. But that kind of attack could turn out to be another pinprick, or result in civilian casualties that would infuriate U.S. allies and the Arab world...
...think I was raised the same way my parents were. I learned about America the beautiful, rather than Switzerland the neutral, England the weak or Puerto Rico the dependent. While my grandfather's years in the Civilian Conservation Corps and the American Air Force are still clear in his mind, his mother's tales of Puerto Rico have faded into memory...
Asked about the potential for civilian protest at his various stopping points in the first Chinese Presidential visit to America in 12 years, President Jiang Zemin told a New York Times reporter that, as a guest of President Clinton, the responsibility for maintaining order was not his concern. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, speaking to an NBC reporter the day before Zemin arrived in Honolulu on the first stage of his visit, suggested that he would not have "a totally fuzzy time." Exactly how "fuzzy" Zemin's visit to Boston will be this Saturday remains to be seen...
...presides over 33 students engaged in Zazen, Zen's painstaking sitting meditation. Her authority, like that of hundreds of senseis before her, is absolute; a student would no more contradict her than question the break of day. A few hours later, however, the Japanese-Portuguese American slips into civilian clothes and rearranges the meditation cushions for an innovation called a Practice Circle, where the talk is free and her view is not privileged. "The center is in the process of redefining its mission," she acknowledges. "This is a very complex place. We are trying to figure out how to live...
What seems like a simple solution to a chronic problem in civilian life takes on complications in a fighting force. Pentagon attorneys say the law's definition of "firearms" is so broad that by year's end the military may have to bar those convicted of familial violence from operating weapons like M-1 tanks, F-16 jet fighters and MX missiles, among others. And nothing is simple at the Pentagon: military pilots, after all, must carry sidearms to protect themselves and their planes when flying into trouble spots. So even if an F-16 is not deemed a "firearm...