Word: pariahs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first among them is Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. In the late 1980s Milosevic loosed chaos upon the former Yugoslavia by conjuring up the ghosts of Balkan nationalism. The four years of war that followed dismembered the country, killed some 100,000 civilians and turned the President into an international pariah. Within Serbia, however, his iron rule remained unchallenged--until last November, when the first sustained attempts to defy Milosevic began rocking the Serbian capital, Belgrade. During recent weeks, the protesters' calls for Milosevic to relinquish absolute rule have won support both at home and abroad, but so far the Serbian...
...since his election-night promise to govern from "the vital center." Clinton has turned over the most important job in the White House to a pro-business centrist who pushed hard for a balanced budget, advocated cutting a deal with Republicans and was an internal ally of the liberals' pariah, the consultant Dick Morris. If there were any doubts left, they disappeared when liberal-in-chief Harold Ickes read in the papers about how he was being passed over for the job before he heard anything from the President...
...house full of plastic "marble" and fake antiques. Other expressions of his grandeur are not so hollow: he owns chateaus in Spain and Belgium, a town house in Paris and a horse ranch in Portugal. Such abuse of his country's strained wealth eventually turned him into an international pariah...
...cousin Sue Bridehead. But in the England of the 1880s, the peasant class was a prison from which few escaped, and love beyond the laws of propriety makes the lovers outcasts. Yet Jude stays stubbornly true to his desperate dreams. He will read his Latin authors and endure his pariah status with Sue "as long as it takes for the world to change...
...each man stands to gain from mutual recognition and the establishment of ties. "Both nations are in bad economic shape, so Milosevic sees the possibilities of greater trade with Croatia. Mending fences with Croatia also goes a long way toward assuring international investors that Serbia is no longer a pariah state. Tudjman gains another feather in his cap as father of his country." Tudjman said afterward: "We agreed on normalization of all issues and all open problems." That may mean some progress was made toward resolving border disputes between the two nations, as well as the future of Eastern Slavonia...