Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the course of the last six months, several events occurred that made the peace talks possible. First of all, after Muslim "safe areas" had fallen to Serbs in July, President Clinton concluded that what a diplomat calls his "muddle through" policy had been a disaster. The Administration thus became...
History, that insufferable know-it-all, has its noble brow furrowed. While noting much to commend in the way this lofty experiment has played out, it finds the U.N.'s charter conference an affair doomed by internal contradictions. Haunted by the disaster of appeasement, the framers assumed all humanity would...
As the golden jubilee opens, a historic reckoning seems at hand. Decades of tinkering with the system are at a dead end. Resistance to change within a proliferation of petty baronies and bishoprics has buried in paper nearly every major reform effort. A growing view holds that the U.N. must...
Moscow dispatched technical experts to Baku after some 300 Azerbaijanis perished there on Saturday in the world's worst subway disaster when a malfunctioning electrical system sparked a fire. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich reports that it was not the fire itself, but noxious fumes that killed most of the victims...
In a stentorian tone seldom employed at presidential press conferences, Yeltsin excoriated reporters for predicting that the meeting would be a disaster. "Well, now for the first time I can tell you that YOU'RE a disaster," he said, sending a beet-red President Clinton into a such fits of...