Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week the ethnic Albanians were the first to see sense. Their upstart army, the K.L.A., had won international confirmation of its meteoric rise to pre-eminent power in the would-be state. By appearing to be willing to give up their arms and dream of independence in exchange for a strong Western umbrella, the Kosovars could show up Serb belligerence. It was smart tactics: if the Serbs refused to go along, the Kosovars wouldn't have to give up anything. So the ethnic Albanians sat down and signed the deal...
...massed some 40,000 troops in and around Kosovo's borders, it may have looked like overkill in dealing with a small guerrilla force. But the K.L.A., funded by millions of dollars in aid from sympathetic overseas Albanians--and perhaps millions more in smuggling revenues--has become a legitimate power in the Balkans...
Much of that success comes from a diffuse, hydra-headed power structure that has rebounded from repeated attempts to put it down. The general headquarters, based in central Kosovo, consists of a dozen or so men who control the political, civil and military operations of the 3,000 to 10,000 rebels. In the field, however, commanders operate with independence. There is safety in that broad, nontraditional power base: it means there is no one head for the Serbs to cut off. It has produced a wide range of K.L.A. leaders, from bloodthirsty terrorists who target civilians to patriots ready...
...Crimson leads the nation in scoring average at 6.47 goals per game, and every skater on the Harvard power-play unit has outscored Brown's team leader this season...
Harvard has the second-best power play in the ECAC, scoring 45 goals in 137 attempts, a 32.8 percent success rate.Brown is third in the conference at 23.6 percent...