Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also question the durability of George Bush's skillfully constructed international coalition. Already suffering economicaly, those nations currently arrayed against Iraq cannot withstand endless months of further sanctions. As history shows, embargoes can only get weaker. We share the staff's aversion to war and its hopes for peace, but our sense of realism raises doubts about an indefinite reliance on sanctions...
...many of the wars of the O.P. were fought over land. In the New Paradigm, big land means less than microchips, which contain the new riches. The implications of landscape are environmental and recreational. Power has gone miniature -- out of muscle and expanse, into mind. The Soviet Union has endless territory. Japan has little, Hong Kong virtually none...
...around forever. Noah undoubtedly used one to check off the lucky couples on his boat. Moses went up a mountain and came down with one. Man is an inveterate listmaker. I list, therefore I am. To define is to list. A Partial List of Lists (and the list is endless...
...news conference, the President explained lamely that the new policy would "continue these minority scholarships as best we can." But civil rights advocates and educational professionals immediately cried foul. The latest policy twist, they charged, was administratively unworkable, legally shaky and likely to invite endless litigation. Moreover, by outlawing the use of general funds, the ruling placed the largest source of money for minority scholarships off limits. "On issues of race and sex discrimination, Bush is merely Ronald Reagan in sheep's clothing," fumed Ralph Neas, head of the Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil Rights...
Fears for the biosphere are still strong around the world, but the expectations of Earth Day have given way to endless debate and procrastination. A TIME poll highlights the public confusion that has helped produce the present policy paralysis...