Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Chinese have always bristled at Washington's threat of revoking MFN, but last week Beijing insisted more emphatically than before that it did not care . if the U.S. used trade as a weapon. Beijing contended that the entire human- rights argument was an unjust cultural ploy to put China...
When and why did this footloose species take off from Africa? Undoubtedly, reasoned anthropologists, H. erectus made a breakthrough that let it thrive in a much broader range of conditions than it was accustomed to. And there was direct evidence of a major technological advance that could plausibly have done...
Hoffmann added that Europe's economic position is threatened by cheap labor from the Pacific Rim nations. Not even Germany's lauded industrial sector can long withstand the dumping of low-cost products like textiles and clothing, he said.
The Palestinians are also discouraged by the fact that United States usually gives Israel over $4 billion in aid annually. That amount is more than the sum of all US foreign aid to East Asia, the Pacific, the Western Hemisphere, and Africa. Some of this aid money undoubtedly fuels the...
Early speculation was that President Clinton would name Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, a surface-warfare officer, as CNO. Unlike all 24 CNOs who came before, Boorda, a high school dropout, never attended the Naval Academy. As the Navy personnel chief from 1988 to 1991, he drafted a plan that allowed...