Word: hunker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Staff. "It's bombing as therapy," says Michael Mandelbaum, a Johns Hopkins University foreign policy expert who advised Clinton during the campaign. "Therapy for us, that is; proof that we've done something at last -- even if the Serbs simply move their heavy weapons and strike elsewhere, or hunker down till the dust clears." Ground troops could settle the conflict, but Clinton has ruled them out. He says he favors lifting the arms embargo so the Bosnians can defend themselves on a level killing field, but he has yet to seriously push his preference...
...mail to the cabin after Weaver retreated there last year. After the shoot-out, as officers cordoned off the mountain, local sympathizers shouted obscenities at police manning the roadblock and vowed, "We'll get you!" At week's end Weaver, his remaining three children and Harris continued to hunker down as lawmen used loudspeakers to broadcast appeals from family members and friends urging the outlaw to surrender...
...thus the core of Bosnia's population -- with next to nothing. Croatia, which counts heavily on its friends in Bonn and Vienna, might be persuaded to desist. Stronger sanctions against Serbia, however, including a total trade embargo or a freeze of foreign assets, might only encourage Milosevic to hunker down even more. Short of large-scale military intervention, a prospect no one countenances, it appears, sadly, that no force exists with sufficient power and pluck to halt the slaughter...
...Shamir simply chooses to hunker down and avoid compromise, his nation may find itself even more isolated than it was before the Gulf War. Solitude in a world filled with mistrust and conflict was one thing. Isolation in a world built on principle and justice might well be something else...
...short-lived. So far, his ambitious strategy looks disastrous. As long as he refuses to deal with the Palestinians, he cannot expect peace with the Arab states. Nor will Washington automatically provide the billions in aid needed to house and employ Soviet Jews. If Shamir simply chooses to hunker down and avoid compromise, his nation may find itself even more isolated than it was before...