Word: miss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over seventy years, the 1918 Treaty of Versailles would stand as the last important international security pact that the Senate failed to ratify. The streak was broken this past week when, on Oct. 13, majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) led Senate Republicans in a 51-48 vote to reject the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT...
...They were tough shots to miss, because you only get so many good looks in a game," she said...
Those questions also seem to be haunting Assad Sr. Although he is anxious not to appear in haste, many diplomats are convinced that Assad is determined not to miss the new opportunity for talks that arose with the election of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in May. In Syria's earlier rounds of negotiations, Assad moved cautiously, only to react bitterly to the deadlock that followed the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the subsequent defeat of Rabin's moderate successor Shimon Peres by hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu. Assad is also more focused on Syria's inevitable political transition...
...much as I have this year. I've never appreciated the subtly changing colors of the leaves, the gradual chilling of the air or the slowly shortening afternoons. It's an essential transition, I've realized. A transition that a freshman at a place like Harvard can easily miss. As a sophomore, it's as if my eyes have been reopened to the autumn that I loved as a child...
...media has made much of the idea of a vice president playing underdog, but in doing so they miss the point. Debates can do what the media, in all their excitement about personalities, drug intrigue and the money trail have been unable or unwilling to do: talk about the issues. Though the post-impeachment Clinton presidency was able to govern without addressing the issues, we can only hope the next president will consider the many-faceted challenges that face our nation, from U.N. bills and international peace negotiations, to Social Security and budget reform, to the seemingly escalating cycles...