Word: containment
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...club has published dozens of issues of the “Harvard Mountaineering” journal since 1927, which contain accounts and pictures from various trips the club has taken to locations like the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Alaska, and the Himalayas...
...Hong Kong cinema is like a hot girl’s underwear drawer. I know that they both contain exotic and thrilling treasures, but nervous trepidation prevents me from exploring them. For every time I’ve given up on a panty raid out of fear that I’d only find granny-pants or that I’d get caught in flagrante dilecto, there’s a Hong Kong action film that I decided not to see because I was afraid that it would be full of plot conventions and pop-culture references that would...
...several military transporters. Some have claimed that the failure of the AU’s mission is inevitable because the mandate the AU has of “observe and report” is the same mandate that UN troops had in Rwanda, and the UN was unable to contain that situation. While it may be true that the mandate is the same, the AU forces on the ground are more than uniformed journalists. These troops protect aid convoys ensuring that they get to the refugees. More importantly, as noted by Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, commander of the UN mission...
Despite the increasingly vocal public concern, laissez-faire Houston does not appear to be at all ready to enact the sort of comprehensive zoning laws that have helped contain the porn industry in some other cities. After closing down one particularly offensive club, Civic Activist Frank Phelps, 65, said that even though many sex-prone businesses remained in his area, residents could "live with what we've got." The remaining joints, said Phelps, "don't have the hideous signs up, and they don't advertise, and they are down near the freeway, away from the residential area." Translation...
...jury is still out on whether Washington will try to contain China - America's most likely future "peer competitor" - or give it space to emerge as a great power. Prime Minister Howard says correctly, but also hopefully, that competition between China and the U.S. need not necessarily lead to conflict. But it is easy enough to imagine circumstances in which it might: tension in the Taiwan Strait, mishandled territorial disputes between Japan and China, even access to Middle East oil supplies...