Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most potent mechanism to promote international order--armed force--is irrelevant to addressing the international issues Americans most worry about. Instead the U.S. and its allies must look after problem countries' internal health: to dry up the poverty that spawns drug growers, boat people and terrorists; to encourage clean and responsive governments capable of addressing grievances. What kind of U.S. foreign policy can foster such conditions? The tools Washington has inherited from the cold war, designed to defend territory and prop up clients, are certainly unsuited to the task...
...losing himself in bad pipe dreams. Or drinking too much. Or resisting the advances of Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin). "'Wild Bill' is one of the dankest and most claustrophobic westerns ever made," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "It's a movie that deliberately shuts itself off from the clean, redeeming beauty of prairie, mountain and desert, and takes the celebrity metaphor, which is at the heart of most gunfighter westerns, into new realms of darkness and hysteria...
When Pond returned to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh less than two years ago, he found no support for his plans. Pond brought together a group of disgruntled college students who wanted the government to clean up streets polluted with 25 years of trash, human bones and feces...
Today, more than 20,000 young Cambodians clean the streets with Pond. Members of his organization also plant trees, teach English and serve as big siblings...
...Shell did not clean up after many oil spills," Abiola said...