Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of the fight over hard-to-serve people is a dispute over their character. Are they, as liberals say, workers held back by lack of skills, child-care problems and other facts of life beyond their control? Or are they, as conservatives insist, underachievers at best and shirkers at worst...
...suddenly under pressure over it. The New York Times reports Friday that a bipartisan group of senior senators and congressmen has written to President Clinton warning of the "drift" in U.S. policy on Iraq, and urging that Saddam Hussein be given a new deadline for compliance with arms-control requirements or face a new round of intense bombing. Although air strikes on Iraq hardly make the paper any longer, let alone the front page, the U.S. and Britain have fired 1,100 missiles at 359 targets this year alone (and flown about 65 percent of the number of missions carried...
KFOR commander General Sir Michael Jackson said last weekend that the KLA leadership was not fully in control of its "hard-liners." But this may have simply been a polite warning -? observers agree that KLA leader Hashem Thaci, despite political support from Washington, is himself one of the movement?s leading hard-liners. The ethnic cleansing of the province?s remaining Serbs and the violence against peacekeepers would be unlikely without at least the tacit support of the KLA. And that?s a problem for NATO, which insists on a multiethnic Kosovo, and opposes independence. But it?s not only...
...remain flexible, adaptable and patient, you will succeed. If you consistently respect, support and rely on teammates, you are better off than you would be alone. You are capable of far more than you realize and can transform the unknown you fear into the known you control and enjoy. Adventure offsites--like condoms and trash bags--can serve more than one purpose...
...from hard-liners in the Communist Party to put the brakes on an economic reform program which has dramatically increased social instability in China. But barring the pontiff may not help Beijing?s long-term goals. "People in Hong Kong view this as a sign of increasing intervention and control by Beijing in violation of the ?One Country, Two Systems? principle under which the territory rejoined the mainland," says Dowell. And "One Country, Two Systems," of course, had been designed, ultimately, to coax Taiwan to rejoin the mainland...