Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of the suffering of this war has been caused by Russia's strategy. In the last war, poorly trained and demoralized conscripts were badly mauled by Chechen guerrillas. Now the Russians have decided to avoid direct fighting. Instead they are using military might to mercilessly pound the Chechen countryside wherever rebels might be hiding; paving the way for Russian ground troops. Since rebels often hide in villages, civilians have suffered greatly as a result of Russia's new casualty minimizing strategy. As the Russian army moves deeper into Chechnya, it leaves a swath of devastated villages, home to maimed...
...Chechens innocent in these conflicts. In the last war some Chechen commanders were notorious for raiding Russian territory and taking villagers hostage, in one case even seizing a hospital and its patients...
...this year's final round, the margins of victory were much more decisive than in last year's, when Stewart defeated her closest opponent by only 54 votes...
...last year's election, Redmond finishedsecond in the race for vice president, running ona progressive platform. She was defeated byStewart's running mate Samuel C. Cohen '00, whoemphasized student services in his campaign...
Stewart attributed the small decline in thenumber of voters--from 3,084 last election to2,706 in this one--to the similarity ofcandidates' platforms...