Word: rim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prospect of general peace in the 21st century, heralded by the lifting of the nuclear arms threat in the 1990s. In the century ahead, the world will contain more democracies than ever before, and they will dominate in Europe, the Americas and the countries of the Pacific Rim. Since it is a truism that democratic states do not make war on one another, warfare should become essentially irrelevant for these nations, most of which will reduce their armed forces to the minimum necessary for individual or collective defense. "We're not going to see nation-states bullying one another...
Problems for Japan are already building up in the Pacific Rim and are bound to intensify. Tokyo's long-range plan for growth is to bring in the raw materials it needs from Russia and steadily increase its sales of manufactured products to what it envisions as a vast market in China. But things will not work out quite that way. Communism will collapse in China, clearing the way for the powerhouse of Taiwan to join Hong Kong as a special economic zone of the Chinese motherland...
...about to take the defender from Argentina on a quick and not-so-flattering trip to the hoop. Five-hundred-pound sneakers: that's what it appeared the Argentine was wearing as Jordan effortlessly rose as from a trampoline for one of his trademark, gravity-defying pirouettes above the rim. The Argentine seemed to shrink to the size of a circus midget. As Jordan dunked the ball, the players on the bench leaped up and cheered the best basketball player the world has ever seen. In Spanish...
...together in the unforgiving vacuum of space. If Thuot, Hieb and Akers had not coordinated their actions exactly, they could have set the satellite wobbling so hard it might have crashed into the orbiter. Had either end of the capture bar hit one of the thrusters on Intelsat's rim, the resulting explosion of rocket fuel could have ripped through the men's space suits...
Much of the diplomatic activity has been prompted by growing fears in the West that if democratic values and free-market economies fail to take root, the whole southern rim of the old Soviet empire will slide inexorably into the embrace of Islamic fundamentalism. Central Asia has been an arena for clashing values, an ancient land swept successively by Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Tatars, Russians and finally communist bureaucrats. During 70 years of heavy-handed rule, Soviet administrations made every effort to standardize life and co-opt Islamic culture. The abrupt end of Moscow's power has left...