Word: containers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rarely been more important; 1992 is a year, like 1815 or 1945, when a great transformation of global politics is under way. The old verities that shaped U.S. policy have vanished: for 45 years all candidates shared the basic belief that America's main job abroad was to contain communism, though some took a more confrontational line, some a more conciliatory one. The next President faces an entirely different challenge, grappling with seismic changes in which the choices are confusing, the directions obscure...
...something of a mystery, but the citations are unintentionally hilarious: "an aristocrat whose brother-in-law is a senior courtier," "a titled schoolmate of Diana's," "a famous socialite." Davies' is the most balanced account but also the vaguest. The books read as if written in haste, and they contain many discrepancies...
Even individual muscles contain different fibers that respond to specialized training. The two primary types are so-called fast-twitch fibers, which contract rapidly to produce large amounts of power, and slow-twitch fibers, which generate less force but don't tire as quickly...
...shared some characteristics with Alexei, Radzinsky began to consider the possibility. On the evidence offered, though, he is a long way from proving it. Yet as Radzinsky was finishing his book last year, the story took a new turn. The grave site had been dug up and found to contain human remains -- but of only nine bodies...
Maybe. All sporting contests before they are played contain an element that Princeton basketball coach Pete Carril calls "glorious uncertainty." Anything can happen, as Carril's teams have proved season after remarkable season against superior opposition. But not this superior. "This is not a great team," says Carril. "This is the greatest team ever." Don Nelson, the + shrewd and artful coach of the Golden State Warriors, whose son Donn is helping to coach Marciulionis and the Lithuanians, agrees. "The once-in-a- lifetime game is not going to happen," he says. "The Dream Team will not allow any second shots...