Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember now, crushes that met their unrequited demise, people whose names I barely recognize as former friends--and, like insignificant textbook lines that one later goes back to highlight, the earliest mentions of people who slowly, but only very slowly, became the five or 10 or 15 people who matter...
...critics argue that this has never been NATO's core purpose. For 50 years, it's been a defensive alliance, one that never before waged war against another European nation, no matter how lacking in democracy, stability or human decency. They see Madeleine's War as the latest example of an incoherent foreign policy driven by moral impulses and mushy sentiments, one that hectors and scolds other nations to obey our sanctimonious dictates and ineffectively bombs or sanctions them if they...
...meeting Tito, giving him flowers. Chernomyrdin argued that the Russians would not publicly support anything the Serbs opposed. That was absurd, she told him bluntly. The Russian role should be to push the Serbs, not merely convey their positions. The U.S. insistence on a NATO-led force was a matter not of theology but of practicality: everyone agreed the Kosovars should return home, but they wouldn't do so without a robust force guaranteeing their safety. When the meeting was over, Albright called Ivanov in Moscow to make sure both Russians got the same message...
...matter what hand is dealt to Harvard, the Bulldogs will not go down without a fight. Boasting one of the top programs on the circuit, Fresno State is a force to reckon with...
...elections, says Branegan, "Senator Larry Craig?s admission that the NRA had 'grudgingly' accepted the latest Republican gun-show measure was an amazing statement." It opens him up, and the Republican party as well, to questions as to whom they are working for. The Democrats intend to keep this matter alive as long as they can. They have a raft of gun control amendments they want the Senate to keep voting up or down...