Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weekend, the deal was reached before desperation set in on NATO?s side. "Moscow had been quite content to prolong the standoff," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. After all, by seizing Pristina's airport and spoiling NATO?s victory parade, Russia restored some of the sense of geopolitical power that had faded since the end of the Cold War. But apparently realizing that the standoff could last only so long -- Russia after all remains in economic free-fall and can't afford to step on the West?s goodwill indfinitely -- Moscow "accepted the inevitable compromise of some sort...
...Chinese have a serious problem believing that we did this by mistake," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "And even if it was a mistake, they believe the fact that such a mistake was possible is a sign that the U.S. doesn?t take China seriously as a power, and that?s going to prompt them be very obstructive in order to get Washington?s attention." Even before the bombing, China was stung by the fact that the U.S. had ignored its opinions in proceeding to attack Yugoslavia, and by the impression that President Clinton hadn?t been adequately prepared...
...loser in this war -? Kosovo was its birthplace, and now its access to some of its most sacred sites has been jeopardized." But don?t expect to see Yugoslavia's president take a retirement package anytime soon ?- playing off liberals against nationalists is how he consolidated his power in the first place...
...unemployed and 9 million black people earn less than a dollar a day, while the average black salary is only one tenth of the average white salary. So while it remains committed to private enterprise and staying on good terms with the IMF, Mbeki's party has swept into power promising to deliver the majority from poverty. But that?ll take more than just miracles in an economy that?s actually shrinking...
...marriage, about how she realized it wasn't a marriage of love. Anne's mother loved Otto very much, but it was an arranged marriage, and while he was kind, he did not love her. Still, he was grateful to have Anne's words and to find they had power to influence the world. The book, and working on it, I think it saved him. Eva Schloss wrote Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank