Word: consented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troops to the new force, said flatly, "We are not going to wage war. That is not the role of the U.N." But even beyond that, he said, the kind of peacekeeping that is required can be carried out only when the combatants basically agree to it. "If the consent is not there, the U.N. will not remain," he said. Britain's Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd went further, saying the reinforcements were intended not to change the character of the U.N. force "but to increase its ability to protect itself." If the U.N.'s task becomes impossible, Hurd said...
...pilot hostage.TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompsonsays that any American action is likely to be low-key, focused on trying to recover the pilot safely if he survived the crash. Writes Thompson: "The problem is, we've got ourselves into this situation where we can't do anything without the consent of our NATO allies, who have all these people of their own on the ground. In addition, Clinton does not seem prepared to send in ground troops...
...investigations have proceeded, Najarian has suffered one blow after another. In 1993 he was forced out as chairman of Minnesota's surgery department. Last year he signed a consent decree with the FDA that prohibits him from conducting trials of experimental drugs. Then last February, shortly after a faculty panel found him guilty of academic misconduct, Najarian abruptly resigned his faculty post...
...beachhead in the fast-growing field of electronic commerce. There were grumblings, of course, about antitrust, but hardly anyone seemed to think they would lead anywhere. After all, the Department of Justice's antitrust division had just wrapped up a four-year federal investigation of Microsoft by negotiating a consent decree that the industry viewed as little more than a slap on the wrist...
...deal did not go through as planned. Last week, three days after the government took Microsoft's side in court on an appeal related to the consent decree, the Justice Department filed suit to block the Microsoft-Intuit merger. The $2 billion deal, government antitrust lawyers argued, would reduce competition, raise software prices and dampen innovation...