Word: dicey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington's blueprint works, and that remained dicey, the rough disposition of peoples that is now a fait accompli, thanks to the Croatian army's blitz through the Serb-held Krajina region, would serve as defensible territories for coexistence. One thorn in this rose may really sting the Muslim-led government in Sarajevo: a suggested abandonment of Gorazde, the remnant republic's last outpost in the east, in exchange for Serb concessions of greater breathing space around Sarajevo itself. In turn, the U.S. would lead its allies in committing substantial reconstruction aid to Bosnia and, most important, some...
Given the nature of the war in the Balkans and his own history, Milosevic is clearly a dicey partner. A communist apparatchik under Tito whose parents both committed suicide, he rose to significance in the party as head of the gas monopoly and the largest state bank. He made his political mark in 1987 with a fiery speech to the Serb minority in the province of Kosovo. Many consider that speech the beginning of his rise to power, as well as of the Serbs' nationalist passion and the wars that were inspired...
...placing of wagers across state lines and through the country's communications networks. The company insists there is no problem: "Because we're completely offshore, we eliminate all that nonsense," Warren Eugene, the firm's 33-year-old president, told Bloomberg Business News. But others think things could get dicey once the FBI takes notice: "It's a fascinating question, and I'm sure it's against the law," says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner. "But how do you prevent it? There's no way to stop people from gambling in their homes...
Unlike Mandela, who often exhorts South Africans to forget the past, Sparks wants them to remember. The object lesson of his narrative is not how complicated the negotiating process was but how dicey and tentative, how easily it might have gone off the rails. Divisions within the a.n.c. and the National Party proved more dangerous than discord between them. During the narrative, Mandela and De Klerk emerge not as ideologues or saviors but as hard-headed pragmatists and canny politicians...
...entire $5 billion video-game industry. Traditionally, the month of December is make-or- break time in the business -- when millions of parents decide what to buy their game-playing vidkids, and when manufacturers rake in 35% to 40% of their annual revenue. But the situation is particularly dicey this year. The industry is in the middle of a delicate transition -- from the so-called 16- bit technology at the heart of today's Sega and Nintendo machines to the next-generation game systems that can process data 32 or 64 bits at a time. It was during a similar...