Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Policies designed to counter global warming are tied inseparably to other global problems such as poverty and population expansion, said William C. Clark, a research associate at the Kennedy School of Government...
...separate socialist existence in some kind of confederal relationship, has thrown in its hand. Unification is possible, Prime Minister Hans Modrow says, but only if the newly formed state remains neutral, unaffiliated with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Bonn and its allies reject that idea but counter with one presented by Genscher. A unified Germany should remain in NATO, he proposed, but allied troops or military structures should stay out of the areas that are now East Germany. In Moscow for his own set of talks, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker hinted that Washington may be flexible...
Advocates of language pluralism counter that English-only laws are thinly veiled and discriminatory anti-immigrant measures. "((They)) are not intended to help bring people in, or to teach them English, but to keep them out," maintains Martha Jimenez of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. "They prevent people from having meaningful access to the government to which they pay their taxes." Furthermore, say the pluralists, such laws are unnecessary: in the U.S. no one is more aware of the social, political and economic importance of learning English than those who cannot speak...
...deep and painful. Most economists agree that the record borrowing binge of the 1980s has left the U.S. economy's private sector singularly unprepared for tough times. Worse still, the Government's fiscal profligacy in those years has drained it of any reserves that could be used to counter recessionary forces. In the postwar era, the most commonly prescribed medicine for an economic downturn has been fiscal stimulation. But persistently high federal deficits, even during periods of robust economic growth, have taken that option off the shelf. Some economists fear that if a recession does strike, Washington could succumb...
...slush past an armored personnel carrier, guarded by shivering young soldiers fingering the triggers of their Kalishnikov rifles. At a kiosk nearby, 50 customers jostle for the meager pile of Romania Libera newspapers. Two doors away, a line of more than 100 shoppers shuffles toward a butcher's counter offering only hamburger. "One hour, maybe two, to wait," says a housewife bundled into a shabby parka. "That is, if any is left...