Word: peak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington was also stuck in internal wrangling. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wanted the White House to push harder for NATO military action, but Defense Secretary William Cohen balked, fearing air strikes would only embolden the Kosovo Liberation Army, then at the peak of its strength and demanding an independent state, which Washington opposed. Clinton was too distracted to knock bureaucratic heads or force the allies to carry out their threat. The indecision "proved to be a disaster," says a U.S. diplomat. "Milosevic took the measure of the West and decided he could take advantage...
...virtually showered money on Meriwether and his band of supposed geniuses. While the term hedge refers to techniques for reducing risk, funds such as Meriwether's often do just the opposite by using vast sums of borrowed money to make highly speculative bets in global markets. At the peak of its borrowing, the secretive fund reportedly carried a debt load 100 times as great as its net assets, or ownership capital. This would be like putting down $1,000 of your own money to buy a $100,000 house--in a flood plain on the San Andreas fault. "Most hedge...
...sometimes jaundiced eye of Bacharach's best partner, lyricist Hal David. Two years ago, Costello and Bacharach co-wrote the song God Give Me Strength, included here, for the film Grace of My Heart. If only the rest of this album were up to that stunningly well-crafted peak. Bacharach brings out a new directness in Costello's singing and verse, but the millstone is cloying production. These engagingly sinuous tunes deserve better than cheesy keyboards and smooth-jazz guitar licks more suited to a Lionel Richie album...
...next year--after Tutu, a 1978 honorary degree recipient, spoke at the IOP--the divestment movement reached its peak...
...sponsors of SOHO) have located the wayward spacecraft and started nursing it back to health; they hope to regain control of it this week. If all goes well, SOHO could be fully back in business this fall in plenty of time to monitor the sun as it approaches the peak of its 11-year cycle of activity, around...