Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some cases unstarted, tasks the Americans are handing over are staggering. Somalia's underlying problems -- the absence of any central government, the lack of basic security, the clan warfare and banditry, the destruction of the country's infrastructure -- have not significantly improved. Charged with broad responsibility for national repair and reconciliation, the U.N. troops will have much more to do than the U.S.-led force. They will be more lightly armed, deploying weapons such as mortars but no tanks or heavy artillery, and they will be stretched over the whole of Somalia, not just the southern and central population centers...
...with him on this issue, and to the extent to which people have been hurt by or misperceived the intention of this invitation to General Powell, I think that's something that in human terms we have to do what we can in our own community and externally to repair," Rudenstine said...
...permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, which Tokyo wants. To assume one, however, Japan would have to overcome its scruples about sending troops abroad, so that it could participate in any peacekeeping operations it might vote on. Japan did send 600 troops to Cambodia to repair roads and bridges under a U.N. peace mandate, but only after a bruising political fight that the Miyazawa government has neither the will nor the strength to repeat...
...just how big a stake they have in the success of his leadership and reforms. Moscow without Yeltsin could decide to withdraw its support of sanctions in Yugoslavia and instead back the Serbs in their bloody campaign for territory. A new regime could decide to reannex the Baltic states, repair relations with Iraq or refuse to honor approval of the START 2 disarmament treaty. The specter of renewed confrontation with a conservative, nationalist Russia that might attempt to revive the ways of the Soviet empire -- forcing the U.S. to give up the defense savings it had meant...
President Clinton has called for more "good jobs at good pay" for workers. But even as he gears up his plan to retrain American workers, companies are abandoning their traditional role of nurturing new talent. Richard Belous argues that government training programs may have to help repair the damage. Schools must also do a better...