Word: role
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Emerging as a seemingly irreconcilable difference was the future role of the Khmer Rouge, the strongest of three resistance groups fighting the Vietnamese and the pro-Hanoi government in Cambodia. The resistance is armed by China and led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a noncommunist who believes having the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh during an interim period leading to elections would be better than fighting them in the jungles...
Many city liberals say that the upcoming election will play a critical role in shaping the future of Cambridge politics. Two long-time CCA councillors, Saundra Graham and David E. Sullivan, have announced that they plan to retire from the council after the current term expires, leaving the CCA locked in an uphill battle simply to retain its four-seat minority...
Under Plan E, the city has a "weak-mayor" form of government, in which almost all executive power is vested in a city manager. The mayor, elected by the city council from its own ranks, plays a mostly ceremonial role, and while the council ultimately shapes city policy, councillors are prohibited from interfering with city employees...
...Bush's role as a managing partner includes being the visible front man. Sitting through nine sweaty innings is part of his strategy to improve the image of a club whose fortunes had been waning. No air-conditioned sky box for this owner. "I want the folks to see me sitting in the same kind of seat they sit in," he says, "eating the same popcorn, peeing in the same urinal." So he is quite happy when fans chirp to him about the team's improved won-lost record. He saves his broadest, Hollywood-handsome grin for the occasional urging...
...centuries, a deeply rooted appreciation of nature has played a central role in the spiritual and cultural life of Japan. Japanese artists traditionally reflected this reverence not in intellectual abstractions but concretely, in highly stylized representations of specific rivers, mountains, plants and animals. As in other aspects of Japanese thought and behavior, artists were expected to remain respectful of the past and concentrate on certain well-established forms and techniques. But during the Meiji era (1868-1912), modernism was introduced from the West, knocking major dents in this rigid system with an emphasis on innovation, individualism and the search...