Word: crucially
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pepperdine University deanships that Starr is supposed to settle into after Whitewater. If Justice handles the investigation, Reno could appear to be trying to undercut Starr's probe of her boss, the President. She may opt instead to ask a federal judge to direct a probe into the crucial question: If Hale is the key to Whitewater, has somebody been turning...
...testing the patience of Asians. If Indonesia goes down, there will be a devastating effect on the rest of Asia. We have seen Asian currencies dip every time he speaks of maintaining his anachronistic economic policies. The Indonesian economy is at the crisis stage, and international cooperation is crucial. Although President Suharto may be able to turn a blind eye to his people's demands, he cannot escape global economic realities. KOSHIRO YAMAOKA Bangkok...
Democracy has been around for a bit, but the 20th century has been the crucial century of its trial, testing and triumph. At the century's start, democracy was thought to be spreading irresistibly across the world. Then the Great War, the war of 1914-18, showed that democracy could not assure peace. Postwar disillusion activated democracy's two deadly foes: fascism and communism. Soon the Great Depression in the 1930s showed that democracy could not assure prosperity either, and the totalitarian creeds gathered momentum...
...Zionism: he was aware of the tragic nature of a clash between two genuine claims to the same land. His position on this can be described neither as hawkish nor dovish: he saw the creation of an independent homeland for the homeless Jewish people as, first and foremost, a crucial provision for the survival of persecuted Jews...
After more than two decades in prison, confident that on some crucial issues a leader must make decisions on his own, Mandela decided on a new approach. And after painstaking preliminaries, the most famous prisoner in the world was escorted, in the greatest secrecy, to the State President's office to start negotiating not only his own release but also the nation's transition from apartheid to democracy. On Feb. 2, 1990, President F.W. de Klerk lifted the ban on the A.N.C. and announced Mandela's imminent release...