Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Remember the promise of the post-cold war world? That new world, with a new order, said to have dawned with the fall of the Berlin Wall? Not a perfect world by any means, but at least a world more likely to harmonize might with right. A world in which...
In Somalia the paradox returns. There is no such thing as just feeding the hungry, if what's keeping them from eating is not crop failure but vandalism and thuggery. One has first to destroy the vandals and the thugs. In a country racked by civil war, what starts with...
But government intervention is no substitute for hard-core cost management, as many of the young airlines seem already to have learned. Houston's UltrAir leases everything from flight crews, custodians and ticket agents to gates, office space and six 727-model aircraft. Says UltrAir chairman Barney Kogen: "We want...
"They were just pumping the place dry," says Interior Secretary Babbitt. Last month, under threat of increasing federal intervention, the Texas legislature passed a bill empowering the state to regulate and manage the withdrawal of groundwater in Edwards Aquifer. The state will now devise a plan for equitable water distribution...
But many foreign-aid workers and Somalis thought targeting Aidid was dangerously simplistic: other thuggish warlords are waiting to take his place. The U.N. action may have tipped the balance of power toward Aidid's enemies, rather than improved the chances for a political settlement. The peacekeepers inflicted more damage...