Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real issue is not so much the dollar amount as the nature of the Japanese contribution. So far it's all treasure and no blood, all soft power and no hard. Left to its own instincts, Japan's sole instrument of security policy would be its checkbook. That isn't good enough in a world menaced by the likes of Saddam Hussein. The burden to be shared in the gulf is not just financial cost; it is also mortal risk. If U.S., Saudi, Egyptian, British and other soldiers die in the desert, Japan's billions will have bought more resentment...
...years as a modern dancer, but it's important now to work with someone I admire." He had danced Morris' work earlier and spotted him as someone who saw dance the way he did, musically. "Mark decodes a composer's thought," Baryshnikov says. "He uses dance like an extra instrument." As for Morris, he seized on "Misha's" special lyricism at once: "He's a fabulous phraser, and I really do think he is that strange poet in Les Sylphides...
...home-run king Hammerin' Hank Aaron (the M.C., added later, stands for Master of Ceremonies, rapspeak for band leader). After a two-year hitch in the Navy, Hammer borrowed some start-up cash from a couple of A's outfielders to launch Bustin' Records. He couldn't play an instrument, and he sang with more enthusiasm than finesse, but his first album, 1988's Let's Get It Started, produced three Top 10 singles. And those hits have just kept on coming. The proof, he'd say, is in the numbers. If Hammer's music is Rap Lite...
Bush's new policy could prove an instrument for pounding a hole in the wall Washington has built between itself and Hanoi. But full relations might allow the U.S. to quicken the kind of development in Southeast Asia that is transforming Eastern Europe...
...high visibility of the Harvardpresidency could make it a dangerous instrument ifentrusted to the wrong candidate, McLaughlinwarns...