Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"It would be a disaster for the division," said Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics Paul C. Martin, who is dean of the division, after the house vote.
To some extent, Americans have become more nervous about health-care reform because the general idea has coalesced into the prickly specifics. But the Clintons also drove the process in ways that frustrated their own intentions. The closed-door sessions of the First Lady's reform task force were a...
Castro primarily has himself to blame for Cuba's current travails. Some reforms he instituted since mid-1993 had begun to pull the country back from the brink of disaster after the collapse of the Soviet bloc cut Moscow's aid from a torrent to a trickle and then to...
Speculation about Kim's future has grown rapidly over recent days. First, anti-Kim Jong Il leaflets appeared around the diplomatic quarter in well- policed Pyongyang. Then an official radio broadcast ostensibly supported Kim's succession as the national leader but may have dropped a hint of a possible power...
The delegates to Cairo appear to have two main options: approve the essence of the draft proposal, allowing the Vatican and its supporters to file dissents, or try to find some consensus language that papers over the conflicts, which usually happens with U.N. documents. The need for consensus reduces action...