Word: established
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...internet are responding in very different ways. On the World Wide Web, commercialization, even in its nascent stages, seems to carry along with it a threat to the populist spirit of the internet, even as it increases the range of information available. Who will be noble enough to establish the Cheesenets of the future if the Web comes to be regarded as merely a cluster of corporate-driven pay services...
...proportions may, however, be "adjusted" if the sides can agree on how to do it. In addition, each of the ethnic entities has the right to establish "special relationships" with neighboring countries. That covers Bosnia's ties to Croatia and allows for a linkage between the Bosnian Serbs and Serbia proper. What kind of links they will be will have to be thrashed out in future negotiations; they might yet lead to the creation of a Greater Serbia...
American voters channel-surfed right past a Republican President in 1992 and a Democratic Congress in 1994, looking, in my judgment, not so much for a different party but for a different spirit in the land, something better. How do we find our way again? How do we re-establish moral standards? How do we end the ethnic fragmentation that is making us an increasingly hyphenated people? How do we restore a sense of family to our national life...
...knew our formal role here: we were to establish a "presence," a word with a nice sophisticated ring. More specifically, we were supposed to engage the Viet Cong to keep them from moving through the A Shau Valley and fomenting their insurgency in the populated coastal provinces. But Hieu's words were the immediate reality. The base camp at A Shau was there to protect an airstrip that was there to supply the outpost...
...northwest of the capitol of Mogadishu. At least 10 people were reportedly killed, and Aidid is now holding 20 foreign aid workers against their will. Baidoa is controlled by a rival warlord, Ali Mahdi Mohamed. "It could just have been a looting run by Aidid in order to re-establish his leadership and get some supplies for his men," says Purvis. "But if Ali Mahdi decides to go after him and resume fighting, then there will be a major catastrophe with food getting to the people. Then, the international community faces a very difficult decision of how it will intervene...