Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the threat of flunking may light a fire under students in general, there is little evidence that the ones who serve as cautionary examples actually benefit. Just the opposite may be true. A national study of 12,000 pupils found that students retained before eighth grade are more than twice as likely to drop out of high school as kids who remained with their age group. In 1989, University of Georgia professor Thomas Holmes surveyed 63 studies that compared the performance of retained students with that of similarly poorly performing kids who were promoted; in 54 cases the retained...
...remove Milosevic." In fact, a ground movement--an offensive by the resurgent Kosovo Liberation Army in the past two weeks--played a key role in upping the pressure on Milosevic's army by forcing Serbian armor out into the open where it was vulnerable to allied attack. Says Army General Henry Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "As [Milosevic] massed his forces to fight back, he set himself up for B-52 and B-1 bombing...
...about $20,000 a pop, it's far cheaper than the $1 million cruise missile that has been the precision-guided weapon of choice for the past decade. "Once you get the air defenses suppressed, you can just fly over and puke out JDAMS," says Merrill McPeak, the retired general who ran the Air Force during the Gulf War. "You can't beat the economics...
Ahtisaari was a welcome addition to the team soon nicknamed "hammer and anvil" in State Department circles. Chernomyrdin didn't much cotton to his uncompromising American interlocutors, and he shared the general Russian suspicion that NATO leaders, particularly Clinton, were driven less by concern for Kosovars than by the desire to show the rest of the world who is boss. Washington worried that Chernomyrdin was soft-pedaling NATO's demands in Belgrade, and wasn't sure he relayed back an accurate reading of Milosevic's intentions...
Indonesia's political system adds a whole new meaning to the words "general election." On Friday, after around 20 percent of 113 million ballots had been counted in the country's first free elections in more than 40 years, opposition icon Megawati Sukarnoputri was projected to claim the biggest share of the vote ?- around 35 percent. But with the military-backed ruling party Golkar claiming a solid 20 percent and two smaller opposition parties each scoring close to that, the election may yet be up to the generals to adjudicate. The reason is that Indonesia?s president...