Word: endless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walk around our ancient campus, one has no choice but to look American history in the face. So amazingly significant are the names that are carved onto the simple brick of our buildings: Adams, Quincy, Mather, Leverett, Kennedy, Emerson, Eliot, Winthrop, Cabot, James, Wadsworth, Goffe, Longfellow--the list is endless and boggles the mind. Indeed, the catalog of the intellectual, spiritual and political leadership of the United States bears so uncanny a resemblance to the list of Harvard's alumni that this College's designation as a fascinating and legitimate subject of study seems evident, even obvious. (In his book...
...layers of rock just slightly younger than that Erwin discovered, scientists have found the mineralized remains of organisms that represent the emergence of nearly every major branch in the zoological tree. Among them: bristle worms and roundworms, lamp shells and mollusks, sea cucumbers and jellyfish, not to mention an endless parade of arthropods, those spindly legged, hard-shelled ancient cousins of crabs and lobsters, spiders and flies. There are even occasional glimpses - in rock laid down not long after Erwin's Namibian sandstone - of small, ribbony swimmers with a rodlike spine that are unprepossessing progenitors of the chordate line, which...
...willy-nilly, in every conflict in the world. But at the same time Washington had to be cautious about where it sent troops for fear of stumbling into a direct clash with the Soviet Union, one that could escalate to nuclear war. Now the opportunities for intervention are almost endless and carry little fear of Armageddon...
Rabin's change of heart was motivated mainly by simple pragmatism. Military rule over the territories would mean endless war, while annexing them wholesale would dilute forever the ethnic character of the Jewish state; a negotiated peace was the only solution. Hard-edged realism was not his only motivation for adopting this approach, however. He also suggested that he preferred it because it was more in keeping with his sense of humanity. In his inaugural speech to the Knesset in July 1992, he argued that it was antithetical to the democratic traditions of the Jews to subjugate another people. Moreover...
...negotiators do not have endless time to solve these conundrums. The cease-fire is scheduled to last 60 days. There is no formal deadline on the proximity conference, which is supposed to be followed by a full-fledged peace conference in Paris. But a State Department source asserts that if it is deadlocked after two or three weeks, that will mean it has run into troubles too tangled for a proximity conference to resolve--leaving open the question of where they could then be taken...