Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Western allies' failure to concur on a policy is partly a refraction of concerns that they might only inflame or, worse, get bogged down in Yugoslavia's mess. Diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions against Serbia have not yet been pursued with any seriousness because no one knows if such hardball tactics will scare Milosevic -- or merely strengthen his territorial ambitions. At the moment, there is widespread agreement that recognition of the new Yugoslavia is undesirable until Serbia removes its army from Bosnia. It is a tactic that might have some effect: without recognition, Yugoslavia stands to lose its U.N. seat...
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL is a mess. Some students sit in the hallway outside the dean's office instead of in their classes. Faculty members take pot shots at each other in widely distributed memoranda...
...doubt that Clark is a fine leagal scholar, especially in his field of corporate law, but that in itself does not make him fit to run the Law School. If Clark can find in himself the ability to clean up the Harvard Law School mess, he should get the job done now. If he cannot, he should step aside and let another person try to bring peace to the school...
Their own mutual enmity causes a fair share of the "mess" that the school suffers from. These scholars were selected because of their academic credentials and because they were relatively acceptable to both political camps...
America's road system is a marvel and a mess. With 3.9 million miles of highways and roads, many of them built in the asphalt rush of the 1950s, it is by far the world's biggest system. Ninety percent of all U.S. travel occurs on highways, and three-quarters of all domestic goods are shipped by road. No stretches are busier than the 1.2 million miles of interstate and other major highways. And yet, despite the $28 billion spent each year on maintenance and construction, the Federal Highway Administration admits that 52% of these thoroughfares are in miserable condition...