Word: reverting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organization, and Washington officials insisted that no American troops would have to be stationed on European soil. One year later, the North Atlantic Treaty became the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and U.S forces in Europe were increased. Today Washington's challenge is to ensure that NATO does not revert once again to a group that looks good only on paper...
...assume, second, that the Soviet threat cannot be succeeded by a Russian threat. A Russia shorn of empire and taken over by embittered nationalists could easily revert to the kind of dangerous revanchism that seized other defeated powers in this century, notably interwar Germany...
...oust club members, what can we do with them? Rehabilitation is too tedious and painful. Also, we have no guarantee that the new and improved ex-members would not revert to their evil ways. The importance of our quest allows no room for error...
...Randy Donaldson admits. "It will offer them two things: real cola taste plus the sweetness of Pepsi." Coke II's packaging will even carry the red, white and blue colors familiar to Pepsi fanciers. Should Coke II succeed, market observers speculate that Coca-Cola Classic would be free to revert to its original name: Coca-Cola...
...would Bush be maneuvering if he didn't have the cushion of an approval rating hovering around 80%? If the economy were on the skids and his popularity at 40%, would he revert to the tough-guy rhetoric that characterized his presidential campaign? Would he have resisted reading the riot act to Kohl? Would he risk alienating America's powerful Jewish lobby by playing hardball with Shamir? No doubt Bush will have tough moments somewhere along the line -- and then we will have an answer...