Word: faction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Security Council (where Russia would almost certainly veto a strike). Rome's support is crucial since Italy provides most of the air bases to be used in the strike, but demurring on Kosovo may be part of Prime Minister Romano Prodi's domestic strategy to keep a Communist faction from bolting his fragile coalition. NATO officials are confident of getting Italy on board, but the continuation of eleventh-hour talks in Belgrade suggest that there may yet be a compromise. Says Calabresi, "Holbrooke's return suggests that there must be something to discuss...
Curiously, rather than being a boon to the nascent hypertext-fiction movement, the Web is seen as a spoiler: "The regrettable rump faction says we lost the hypertext movement when the Web came along," says Joyce. "No one knows yet how to make this a popular medium." Why? "The Web is all edges and without much depth, and for a writer that is trouble," he says...
...Council and now a kingmaker of the GOP's religious right, lamented publicly that "it's sad ? Sen. Goldwater was once the authentic voice of American conservatism." Ah, but Goldwater didn't change his stripes, the GOP did. Bauer is the "authentic voice" of something else entirely: a radical faction that is fast taking over the party -- and trampling the philosophy -- to which Goldwater dedicated his political life...
...KOHR fragmented when members diverged over the question of the group's focus. One faction wanted a greater emphasis on political activities, and less of a focus on social functions. The KACC was born and began organizing discussion groups on various issues affecting Koreans and Korean-Americans...
...Last year, a Khmer Rouge faction arrested Pol Pot and put him on a show trial for his abuses. He told a Western interviewer at the time that his conscience was clear, even though some Cambodians might have died as a result of "mistakes" in implementing his policies...