Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announced so abruptly by George Bush, America's mission to the Horn of Africa is intended to be a quick fix, a jolt of military muscle to make the country safe for humanitarian aid. Once the so-called secure environment for relief operations ordained by last week's Security Council resolution has been achieved, U.S. troops are supposed to hand over their responsibilities to a smaller, traditional force of U.N. peacekeepers, not yet formed or financed. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater even suggested that the U.S. military operation could be over by Inauguration...
...biopic subject later. Perhaps that is why his movie is so stately, reverent and academic, so suitable for the Oscars with which Hollywood rewards high-minded mediocrity. Some other director will have to find a way to merge the danger of a brilliant, racist orator with the seismic jolt of energized filmmaking. That picture will be worth skipping school...
Clinton has pledged, in the spirit of Roosevelt, to spend his first 100 days reigniting the nation's economic confidence. Instead of accepting a muddle- through series of compromises that offends few factions, he must be a leader, working with the new Democratic Congress to produce the kind of jolt that will cause Americans in their corner coffee shops to talk once again about the future with hope, not fear. The rare combination of an administration and both houses of Congress controlled by the same party means that the President can be held accountable for a change. But it also...
...team hopes, however, to give its 3-11 record a jolt in the positive direction this weekend as it hosts Princeton, Brown and Boston College at the Harvard Invitational...
...centuries to follow, will be complex, fast- paced and turbulent. Human beings everywhere have learned to live with, even thrive on, explosive increases in the volume of knowledge, the capacities of technology, the potential for travel, the electronic immediacy of once distant cultures. Change has become almost addictive, a jolt to energy and creativity...