Word: grounds
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America and her European allies were essential in concluding the peace, and they will remain essential in making it last. NATO has drawn up plans for committing some 60,000 of its ground troops as Bosnian peacekeepers. The force's mission will be to supervise the provisions of the ceasefire and ensure that the combatants withdraw to established lines. Without an international presence on the ground, mutual distrust would in all likelihood lead to a breakdown in the fragile accord. The NATO force guarantees each side that the peace will be upheld and has the strength to enforce it should...
...Greeece and Turkey, in a wider war; and it raised questions about the potency of international organizations such as NATO and the United Nations. This is to say nothing of the human tragedy that captured the conscience of the west. While America could not allow itself to engage its ground troops in the war, it must stand by the peoples of Bosnia as they struggle for peace...
...their best, the films forge new connections in the mind while presenting a complete aesthetic. At their worst, they entertain with bouncy motion and sustain curiosity for the techniques which created them. In between lies a fertile ground of freely-moving shapes which suggest the beginnings of Bauhaus, Pop and MTV-style images...
...point of all this is that sports is the most fertile ground for the underdog. While Bill Clinton had to shamelessly network for his whole life to become President (he says that after each day he spent in Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he would write down the name of and an amusing anecdote about everyone he met), Bobby Cremins just had to give it his all on he court (he was a schoolyard legend who got a college scholarship to play Basketball) and on the sidelines. Bobby Cremins' triumph is unassailable...
...long list of restrictions is written into the sales contracts for every house. Example: no clothes on the line in any front yard. But at the same time, there will be no litter to worry about. At the recent drawing and Celebration celebration, the confetti had hardly hit the ground before a Disney confetti picker materialized to sweep...