Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush is still the favorite of conservative Republicans in national polls. "Bush is a conservative who doesn't scare moderates," brags a top adviser, who insists that Bush can lose New Hampshire to McCain and still cruise to the nomination. "Our message doesn't just resonate with one target group; it resonates with all of them...
...adds that privatizing part of the system is the way to do it. In his Meet the Press interview, Bush broke with his party by endorsing the right of patients to sue their HMOs, but he burnished his social-conservative credentials by declining to meet with the leading group of gay Republicans. He's against hate-crimes legislation aimed at protecting minorities, gays and women, but he's for set-aside programs that give 10% of government contracts--and maybe more--to firms owned by women and minorities as long as there are no "quotas...
...choice of General Mikhailov to lead a group of journalists on a tour of Russian-controlled parts of Chechnya is an intriguing one. In 1996 he was chief spokesman for the Federal Security Service at Pervomayskoye, site of one of Russia's worst humiliations in the 1994-96 Chechen war. A Chechen leader named Salman Raduyev had seized the village, taken hostages and for days beaten back attacks by elite Russian units. Mikhailov was responsible for explaining this mortifying defeat to Russians and to the world. His performance was roundly denounced as inflammatory and wildly inaccurate, and he was fired...
...hands of the rebels. This fall the company has reaffirmed its commitment to trying to stop the trade and even added a bit of a spin: a sense that the boycott was aimed directly at the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA), the rebel group led by Jonas Savimbi that has been a target of largely ineffectual U.N. sanctions since 1993. Explains De Beers spokesman Andrew Lamont: "The only goal is to do as much as we can to help the U.N. to limit the ability of UNITA to carry on the conflict...
...desperate to breathe life into their country's sagging economy. Son lured a couple of Silicon Valley veterans to run Softbank Technology Ventures, the San Jose partnership that has become the heart of his Internet empire. And so the shopping spree began, as Softbank scooped up the trade-show group that organizes Comdex, the computer industry's biggest convention, and Kingston Technology, a memory-board maker. Son bought all of Ziff-Davis Publishing and its television and Internet assets for $3.2 billion, a price considered at the time a few degrees north of insane...