Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each day Xiu Xiu dresses up for the ride back to civilization that never comes. Then a peddler appears. He tells Xiu Xiu that pretty girls like her are using their wiles with party officials to get sent back to the city. Why, he will put in a word to...
Like other dictators of this age, Milosevic makes these calculations in virtual isolation. He rarely appears in public, never travels anywhere. He nominally consults an inner circle of perhaps 15, but his only true adviser is his ambitious, neocommunist wife Mira Markovic. "His pride at being a guy everyone comes...
Perhaps it was his isolation in a rural part of Scotland (the bucolic region of Midlothian, where he and his wife treasured long walks, gardening and the distinctive Scottish sport of curling) that permitted him to resist the naysayers. Or perhaps it was the isolation of the remote field of...
It was then, after decades of the Leakeys' working in isolation and operating on shoestring budgets, that the National Geographic Society agreed to support and promote the "Leakey legacy." Louis was, for Geographic, everything it could have wished for in an African adventurer. He was the self-proclaimed white African...
10 Gophers have scored at least 10 goals, and eight have at least 30 points. Three of Minnesota's blueliners have 15 assists. But Minnesota's record is qualified by its schedule, as geographic isolation has sheltered the Gophers from the rough-and-tumble ECAC.