Word: leste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...done in the recent past, the game won't degenerate into a replay of World Wars I and II. Compared to the previous contenders, both sides have reasons to be cautious. China cannot risk its trade surplus with the U.S., and Washington must speak softly lest Beijing dump its vast reserves on the market, driving down the value of the dollar. The U.S. needs China to constrain North Korea's nuclear ambitions, and China needs the U.S. as a counterweight against a resurgent Russia...
...tactic of political correctness, never to confront the content of a divergent opinion, but to dismiss it as “extreme” or out of bounds. Through their attacks on me, my colleagues during the meeting and after were warning others not to step out of line lest they invite the same contempt. Imagine the fate of any junior faculty member who might share my point of view on such issues as the importance of ROTC on campus, the pernicious effects of group preferences for women in hiring, or the dangers of anti-Semitism in its latest anti...
...group of friends to keep tabs on one another despite hectic Harvard schedules. This seems harmless—insofar as it increases comfort levels with blogging, quite valuable even. Still, when creating new discussion forums we ought to think carefully about in which category (public or private) they belong, lest we clamp down unnecessarily on conversations which should rightly have been open...
...security measures-including a perimeter around the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi through which only documented residents are allowed to pass-large trucks will no longer be allowed into the "red zone" in the east of the capital where diplomatic compounds, government buildings and international hotels are located, lest they be carrying explosives. Any one who enters the area must have photo documentation and express permission from the interior ministry...
...insistence that British royal officials could only communicate with provincial Chinese authorities indirectly by way of “petition,” instead of on terms of diplomatic equality. There was also irritation with Chinese constraints on trade—Western traders were confined to Canton (modern Guangzhou) lest too many foreigners should disturb the tranquility of Chinese life. But the British, like everyone else, were dazzled by the prospect of a limitless Chinese market, if only they could get there; so they wanted more ports opened to trade. Furthermore, free trade was fast becoming a moral imperative...