Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third rationale: strategic. East Timor, said Berger, is nothing more than "a humanitarian problem," while Kosovo involved "strong security and strategic consequences...
...this too is nonsense. Yes, East Timor is purely a humanitarian problem. But so is Kosovo. It matters not a whit to the U.S. whether Kosovo is ruled by Serbs or Albanians or Tartars. It has no economy to speak of, no industry, no military. It doesn't even have a seacoast. It is a destitute, landlocked geopolitical wasteland. East Timor is much the same, except for the beaches...
...scale the 12-ft.-high steel fence that separates the town of Agua Prieta from Douglas, Ariz. As he slows the pickup, the teenagers scatter like rabbits toward the sagebrush. "Wait! Don't run! We're not here to arrest you," yells Macias. "We want to help you. The problem is on the other side...
...result of repeated trauma. I'd worn thinner socks than usual, which left room for my feet to slide forward, banging my nails many times against the front of the sneaker, or so-called toe box. Shoes that are too big or slippery can create the same problem...
Next came industrial espionage. Orey introduces an engaging, skittish misfit named Merrell Williams, a Ph.D. in theater with an intermittent drinking problem and an inability to hold a job until he went to work as a paralegal doing closely held research for Brown & Williamson Tobacco. The object of Williams' work was to determine what B&W execs knew about the effects of tobacco and when they knew it, to help company lawyers fight future damage claims. Out of a sometimes fuddled sense of righteousness, Williams began smuggling documents from the B&W offices and copying them. The pilfered papers--which...