Word: either
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spetsnaz, and even harder to qualify. Spetsnaz veterans across the country acted as informal talent scouts, identifying promising soldiers for their old units. The recruits were fit and tough, and sometimes edging dangerously close to trouble with the law. "The saying used to be," Ivan recalls, "that you went either into the Spetsnaz or into prison." They had something else in common, veterans say: though often unsophisticated, they were usually very bright. Volodya, a well-educated officer who commanded a Spetsnaz unit, remembers his men as "some of the most intelligent people I have ever known...
...Swigert believed, you can either go to the moon or you can appreciate the significance of going, but you can't do both. If that's the choice, it's possible that the nearly 4 billion people the astronauts left behind when they set off on their journeys--the people who get to look at the pictures and study the rocks and retell the tales the explorers brought home--just might have got the better part of the deal...
...seen and used one, and I thought it was cooler than a tape player. I mean, really, any given CD looked more artistic than a cassette. It had paint already on it. The cover was art, sure, but when you opened the case, you found another work of beauty, either swirling and complex or elegantly simple, a new aesthetic by which to judge new albums. What's more, I could tell that tapes were passe. I wanted to be with the times, and I wanted to hear the future...
...Which it very well could. "For China, bringing Taiwan back under its control, like Hong Kong, has always been a long-term goal, as in 50 or 100 years from now," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But Beijing doesn?t want Taiwan making any moves either." The move itself may have been no more than local politics; Lee has a presidential election coming up, and independence is a potent issue at home. But trouble is trouble, and when Lee made similar noises in 1996 (for his previous election bid) the U.S. sent warships to the region after China shot...
Good job on Bush--the best I've read. For me, the key statement deals with his concern for former employees when he sold his company: he found jobs for all of them. How many candidates of either party would you trust to do the same? HERBERT NEUMAN Concord, Mass...