Word: repeatability
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Officials in Burundi and the world outside have been watching anxiously to see if the Rwandan nightmare would repeat itself here. The ethnic makeup in Burundi is the same as in Rawanda: 80% Hutu, 15% Tutsi. The difference is that in Burundi, the minority Tutsi have always controlled the armed forces, while in Rwanda the majority had the weapons. After the assassination of two Presidents in 18 months, the current government is a shaky coalition of the two rival tribal groups. Moderates willing to compromise are dumped by their own faction, and, says a senior foreign-aid worker, "the country...
Newt Gingrich says he's sick of "despicable demagoguery" by the press that depicts Republican reforms ascruel to poor women and children-- the same line Democrats have taken on the House floor this week. "It is shameful when the major newspapers of this country repeat routinely the lies of liberals who are saving the bureaucrats by using the children," Gingrich told 1,000 New York City government, business and civic leaders today. The truth, he said, is that Congress is increasing the school lunch program by 4.5 percent and increasing aid to women and children above Clinton Administration projections. Outside...
These results seem to square with many people's sense of the game recently. Baseball did not have a repeat champion after 1977 until 1993, and last year's best team (the Montreal Expos) had one of the smallest payrolls...
...JESSE JACKSON have at least one thing in common: each of them could play havoc with the 1996 presidential race. Perot makes Republican candidates cringe when he threatens to "do whatever I have to do to get our goals accomplished in the most intelligent way." They fear a repeat of the damage Perot inflicted on George Bush in 1992. And Bill Clinton's advisers shiver when they hear Jackson musing that "a lot of people are interested in more ballot access as the Democrats and Republicans become indistinguishable." The Clintonites worry about an independent Jackson candidacy that could destroy...
...That was my freshman year, and we don't want to see a repeat of that," captain Ben Coughlin said. "At least it's two out of three; no more onegame series...