Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never thought it would be taken seriously, do it now. If you wanted to play intramural softball but the nerds at your school (I'm assuming you were one) were laughed off the diamond, this is your chance. If you never felt comfortable asserting your ethnicity, your religion (or lack thereof) or your sexuality, this is your time...
...Russian troops were no threat to the allied forces, but their bizarre deployment set off worries about whether Russian President Boris Yeltsin was in control of his own military, or whether he had sanctioned the early troop movement as a concession to hard-line generals dismayed by Russia's lack of influence in Kosovo. Publicly, however, U.S. officials tried to put the best spin on the situation. "We would like them to participate [in the peacekeeping mission]," said Defense Secretary William Cohen. "Whether they arrive a few hours earlier or later really is not a significant factor...
...might think, given the way some people have talked lately about the lack of heroes, that it would be hard to find any who stand up to scrutiny. That's a misunderstanding too. What's true is that we don't have any more of those all-purpose heroes, the king or teacher or paragon who is right and true all the time. But we do have plenty of people with heroic passages in their life, who bravely shatter a limitation or convention and open up new possibilities in the life of others. As we at TIME selected our heroes...
...continued to chop along the path that was still a long way from being cleared. He campaigned for baseball to hire a black third-base coach, then a black manager. In 1969 he refused an invitation to play in an old-timers' game at Yankee Stadium to protest the lack of progress along those lines...
...freshmen filling in several starting positions because of the lack of numbers," Chew said. "It was tough keeping morale up, but this year was about proving something to ourselves, and about getting the freshmen's feet wet, and just doing the best that we could...