Word: exploitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the allies are left feeling whipsawed, the Serbs are only too . delighted to exploit the confusion. This they have achieved by doing everything to handicap the peacekeepers short of actually driving them out. On Dec. 11, Serbs announced a ban on U.N. military escorts of humanitarian convoys, thereby making it almost impossible to supply aid to Sarajevo and eastern Bosnia. They continued to block the Sarajevo airport and prevent deliveries of fuel to the U.N. mission. "The calculated attacks have never been as bad as now," said U.N. spokesman Paul Risley, "and our ability to carry out our peacekeeping...
Despite Harvard's victory, Hellman is realistic about its implications. He feels that the invitational's format, in which the top 16 swimmers earn points, was a definite advantage for the Crimson, which was able to exploit its depth...
...staff's desire to attack "free-loaders" who exploit the loop-holes of rent control, it ignores the fact that elderly residents, artists and students (including me) depend on rent control for their housing in Cambridge...
Proudfit said that the Crimson stepped up their team defense effectively in the second half. However, she emphasized that the team must continue to work on its full-court press and exploit its considerable athletic ability to achieve success in its next game, at home against Army today...
...Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is the laboriously crafted 123-nation agreement designed to lower tariff barriers. In his threatening letter demanding a delay of the vote, Senator Helms, who can make "free trade" sound like some weird practice he once saw in a Mapplethorpe photo, was trying to exploit the fact that Congress has agreed to consider GATT under "fast track" rules that allow only a yes or no vote, with no amendments. Because that rule expires in January, the next Congress, under G.O.P. control, would be free to decorate GATT with subclauses sure to kill it because each...