Word: isolationism
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Even if Chavez were to turn Caracas into Havana, there is little Washington could do. The U.S. depends on Venezuela as its fourth largest foreign-crude supplier, which all but precludes swinging the trade embargo stick Washington has used against Castro for 45 years. Political isolation is a weak bet...
Yet most analysts agree that threats of Serbia relapsing to the bad old days of nationalism and isolation are just a bluff, aimed at postponing the inevitable. Still, in the Balkans, worst-case scenarios have an unfortunate track record of coming true.
Talk about the machine in the garden. Thoreau once famously complained that even in the woodland isolation of Walden Pond, there was no place he could escape the sound of the train whistle. Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, who designed the Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum, have...
Q: Is isolation something that we're sure is going to work or is it part of - can you just explain a little bit what your thinking is there?
So the question is how does this conversation go. We were talking up until '05, February '05, and even though we weren't getting anywhere, you know, we kept trying to talk. But of course, then you had the Hariri assassination, which changed the dynamic considerably as the isolation of...