Word: disarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he inspects their bags, he says, "You can disarm them by having a lot of comments. Outrageous ones like, 'Very organized...' or 'Mother would be shocked...
...undertaken anything quite so ambitious. Beginning this week, the world body will put 36,000 military and civilian personnel on the ground in Yugoslavia and Cambodia, charged with meeting goals that extend far beyond keeping antagonists from each other's throats. The U.N.'s blue helmets are supposed to disarm and disband combatants -- many still seething over real and imagined grievances -- and prepare the way for the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Nor is that all. They are also supposed to see to it that political negotiations can be conducted in Yugoslavia and democratic elections in Cambodia...
Next week several hundred blue-helmeted United Nations troops are due to arrive in Yugoslavia. They are the vanguard of 14,000 soldiers from 30 countries, the first U.N. peacekeeping force ever deployed in Europe. Their mandate is to disarm the warring militias, monitor the withdrawal of the Serbian-dominated federal army from Croatia and protect the Serb minority in the breakaway republic...
...estate values, help Americans with health- care costs and make the nation more competitive. His apology for declaring the recession over last summer was perhaps the shrewdest stroke. "I probably have made mistakes in assessing the fact that the economy would recover," he said. Such statements are designed to disarm voters who blame both Bush and Congress for the economic problems but blame Bush more. As one leading New Hampshire Republican put it, "Voters here are so unaccustomed to hearing a mea culpa from a politician that when they do, they love...