Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leader Hashem Thaci, despite political support from Washington, is himself one of the movement?s leading hard-liners. The ethnic cleansing of the province?s remaining Serbs and the violence against peacekeepers would be unlikely without at least the tacit support of the KLA. And that?s a problem for NATO, which insists on a multiethnic Kosovo, and opposes independence. But it?s not only a problem of principle: Both Belgrade and Moscow have warned that they won?t tolerate the KLA running riot in the province, and if NATO won?t stop it, they?ll do it themselves...
...Kofi Annan is trying to enforce a universal standard of behavior among forces serving under the U.N. flag," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The problem is that it only really works if enforcement is universal too, and Annan?s proposal still leaves it up to the home country of the troops to actually prosecute and punish violators. In practice, that dilutes the the code, because we?ve already seen that different countries don?t apply the same penalties or strictness in applying codes of conduct." Consistent standards could be upheld, of course, by the proposed International Criminal Court...
...Lynch: it?s an opportunity to play the markets with the big boys. The only difference is whose money gets put on the table. At Merrill, winners get rich and losers just get fired. In day-trading, winners get rich but losers go broke. Regulators don?t have a problem with that -? not yet. But as the world of investing gets more and more democratic, they?re anxious that all the suckers get an even break...
...problem in your life. I'm sorry. Did you ever get her back...
...with a secessionist rebellion underway in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, there may be some good reasons for getting rid of Stepashin. After all, he authored Moscow?s clumsily brutal, yet ineffective, response to the uprising in neighboring Chechnya five years ago. But Yeltsin has never had any problem signing off on a little butchery in the Caucasus, and Stepashin had just returned from Washington having secured an IMF loan. "This was the most inexplicable of all Yeltsin?s decisions," says Meier. "Stepashin was a loyal servant, and Putin is simply a poor man?s Stepashin." Putin now contemplates...