Word: mading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...again shot 7-of-9 from the floor and made 2-of-3 from the line to rack up a team-high 16 points in 23 minutes of playing time...
...using a litany of past and present wrongs against a minority group as justification for their sovereignty. It is especially tempting with the Chechens, who have a remarkable courage and perseverance in the face of long odds, which they demostrated in the fiercely noble stand a few Chechen fighters made against the massive Russian army this decade...
There are a few unflattering disclosures. References are made to McCain's "histrionic pattern of personality adjustment" or "mildly hysterical traits," but the technical terms sound more dramatic than they really are. In essence, the doctors were saying McCain was prone to emotional excitability. But they said he could control it. The campaign blotted out most references to his feelings about his family during the years when his first marriage was unraveling...
Safra, listed in Forbes magazine as the world's 199th richest person, was scion of a banking family that built its first fortune financing the Ottoman Empire caravan trade. Safra made his mark adhering to the old-fashioned banking-business model of securing deposits and then investing them in safe, modest-yielding assets. The secretive billionaire had long been known as a generous contributor to Jewish causes around the world. Last week he was on the verge of wrapping up his life's work, the sale of Republic National and Safra Republic holdings to HSBC Holdings, Britain's largest bank...
...Also absent from Tudjman's funeral were the leaders of the NATO countries, which, although they'd backed him in his war against the Serbs, subsequently began to keep their distance from the authoritarian nationalist. "The West's early decisions on Croatia were made in a time of crisis management, when Tudjman's anticommunism was enough to win him support," says Anastasijevic. "Later, Tudjman's lack of enthusiasm for democracy and factors such as his denial of the Holocaust made them more uncomfortable." But while Western governments are hoping that Tudjman's passing will open...