Word: limiters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time to ban the word peacekeeping, or at least to limit its use. As has been widely pointed out, peacekeeping is impossible if there is no peace to keep. It might be said with only slight exaggeration that peacekeeping works only when it is not necessary -- in other words, when enemies have more or less agreed to stop fighting. In such situations, Blue Helmets can provide the final impetus toward peace and supervise established arrangements, as happened in Cyprus, Mozambique, Cambodia, the Sinai and elsewhere. But it cannot work in a cockpit like Bosnia, as U.N. officials themselves warned three...
There is one great opportunity in thematter of co-existence between nations and spheresof civilizations, culture and religion that shouldbe grasped and exploited to the limit. This is theappearance of supranational or regionalcommunities. By now, there are many suchcommunities in the world, with diversecharacteristics and differing degrees ofintegration...
...vote of 91 to 8, the Senate adopted a broad package of antiterrorism measures after the President and Republican leaders settled their differences over the plan. The bill includes some $2 billion for stepped-up counterterrorism programs, broadened wiretapping authority (a presidential request) and -- most controversial of all -- a limit of one federal habeas corpus appeal for most prisoners on death row (a Republican request). The House is expected to act soon on similar legislation...
Prosecutors are frantically trying to limit the damage done to their case Thursday whenO.J. Simpsonmuttered and struggled to pull on the bloody gloves while jurors watched. Today the prosecution recalled Richard Rubin, former vice president of glovemaker Aris Isotoner as an expert witness on gloves. Rubin testified the tighter glove had shrunk well below its extra-large size -- probably because it had been soaked in blood -- and said the gloves in their original condition would easily fit Simpson. He also explained that because the lining was damaged, it was very difficult to insert a hand completely into the glove. Rubin...
...this? Because the Third Reich proved beyond all reasonable doubt what the constant pumping of hate-filled images and inflammatory statements can do to a culture. I do not believe censorship is the answer. But I have no doubt good taste and responsibility will not limit the entertainment industry's ability to provide mature work that attacks our corruption, challenges our paranoia and pulls the covers off the shortcomings that Balkanize us. What we need is simply the same sense of responsibility and dire consequences that we bring to the issue of anti-Semitism...