Word: containers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bosnia flares like a midsummer forest fire, defying the West's wavering attempts to contain it. On Friday, July 21, the NATO allies announced a bold new plan to deter Serb aggression. In the days that followed this call to arms, Ratko Mladic, the commander of the rebel Bosnian Serbs, seized and "ethnically cleansed" one "safe area," Zepa, and intensified a brutal assault on another, Bihac. Meanwhile, an eventuality that the U.N. and NATO had dearly hoped to prevent--a widening of the Balkan war--seemed by Friday to have occurred, as Croatia joined the fighting. Not a very good...
...ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country, a statesman is a man who lies from the comfort of home. Regarding China, American statesmen abound. Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord denies vehemently that America is trying to contain China as it once did the Soviet Union. Our policy is one of engagement not containment, he insists. And Newt Gingrich says on Face the Nation that we should help the Chinese people undermine the Chinese government, then spends the next five minutes explaining that he did not really mean undermining...
...will become a subsidiary of South Korea's LG Electronics. The LG Group, formerly Lucky-Goldstar, thus became South Korea's first conglomerate to establish a major beachhead in American consumer electronics. The firm, whose TV sets captured just 1.7% of the U.S. market last year, could hardly contain its glee, issuing a statement that the $351 million acquisition catapulted it into "the same league as other top-class makers...
...plan, proposed by Cambridge Savings Bank and conceived by the architectural firm Stubbins Associates, calls for the demolition of the four century-old structures in the heart of Harvard Square. The buildings currently contain two restaurants, the Wursthaus and The Tasty, and many empty storefronts...
...week he came under renewed scrutiny after another FBI official, E. Michael Kahoe, admitted destroying documents collected during an internal investigation of the Ruby Ridge episode. Now congressional investigators must confront several questions: Did Kahoe act on the orders of a superior, possibly Potts? And did the destroyed papers contain the identity of the official who issued the shoot-on-sight order? At least one FBI agent has charged that Potts gave the signal. Potts insists...