Word: localize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the Democratic race shaping up into a two-man fight, both campaigns were intent on wooing support among the delegates, most of whom are active local Democrats. Polls have shown Gore leading Bradley by a large margin in New Hampshire, and much of the state Democratic establishment has already thrown its weight behind the vice president...
This is Zhu territory, right on the edge between disgrace and success, between oblivion and celebrity, between smiling self-confidence and apoplectic fury at incompetence and corruption. "I've seen documents detailing corruption involving local leaders," says a Beijing official. "On the margins is Zhu Rongji's terse inscription: CHE (Fire him!)." When TIME wrote last October that his wings had been burned by being too ambitious with reforms, Zhu sent a message through former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills: "Tell TIME my wings are still strong...
...week Serb paramilitary units drove into his neighborhood, went to the door of every Albanian home and gave the residents 10 minutes to pack their belongings and go to the Korza, the city's main square. From there most of the crowd of 15,000 were herded into the local sports stadium, where they spent the night in silent fear, half expecting to be mowed down in a mass execution or placed in the way of NATO bombs...
...Doctors scrambled to prevent the crowding and dismal sanitation from causing a tuberculosis epidemic, but their efforts seemed of little use. "People don't even have spoons, so everyone eats from one bowl. Women are giving birth next to men with TB. It is an epidemiological bomb," said a local doctor. Added another: "This is hell...
Throughout Kosovo, the "cleansing" of the province's 1.8 million Albanians was swift and brutal. Arife Bajrami, 30, who fled to Kukes, Albania, from Izbice, in central Kosovo, said Serbs told residents to assemble at the local schoolyard. The Serbs demanded money from the women in exchange for their lives. "They made us walk for two hours to another village, then they marched us back again, just making fun of us," Bajrami said. "We had no food. I saw one old lady die on the road." As she trudged along the muddy road to Albania, local Serbs shouted, "Your land...