Word: generale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite Seton's promise to campaign against any candidate who does not support the increase, and the general support for the increase among council representatives, some candidates may work a disapproval of the increase into their platforms in the hopes of winning over voters disenchanted with the council and its role on campus...
...comes the reckoning: if Congress and the White House do not come up with at least $350 million by the end of the year, the U.S. will lose its vote in the U.N.'s 185-member General Assembly, joining the company of such scofflaws as Somalia, Iraq and Sierra Leone. American delinquency has sullied the U.S.'s prestige at the U.N., and may be gnawing away at American credibility overseas. How, foreign-policy types worry, can a nation lead if it won't even pay its bills? Late last week congressional Republicans remained deadlocked with the Administration over the arrears...
...share of the U.N. peacekeeping tab from 30% to 25%. (The U.S. expects a $320 million bill this year.) "Countries would have been willing to lower the U.S. portion," says U.N. information officer Jessica Jiji, "if they had paid their dues." And if the U.S. loses its General Assembly vote, it may also forfeit its moral strength in the battle to restrain the growth of the U.N. budget. Says U.N. Under-Secretary-General Joseph Connor: "Somebody sitting on the bench isn't throwing the balls...
Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously described Franklin Roosevelt as a man possessed of a second-rate intellect but a first-rate temperament. In the years since, America has elected brilliant men and charming ones, wonks, rogues, rascals, a general, an actor, a nuclear engineer, in a rolling judgment about knowledge and wisdom, instinct and style. At times it seems that the murkier the issues, the sharper the matter of character becomes...
...biggest shopkeeper will be less able to stick to its preferred role as an agnostic buyer for the masses. There's a world full of outraged parents, students, environmentalists, activists, politicians and stockholders complaining with equal fervor about the silly and the serious. Says Glass: "The public in general becomes a little harder to serve all the time. But you have to respond to that." In other words, Wal-Mart is no longer a free agent...