Word: rule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Khatami had squeezed through the conservative-controlled vetting process despite making no secret of his commitment to building a more open civil society in Iran, widening democracy, entrenching the rule of law and normalizing Iran?s relations with the international community. After all, he is a cleric and a veteran of the revolution, and is able to articulate his aims as consistent with its original goals. But his landslide victory was a repudiation of Khameini?s hard-line policies, and the conservatives immediately launched a counterattack, arresting key supporters on corruption charges, attacking liberal theologians and closing down reformist newspapers...
...relief to be home among my own kind where I don't have to put on an act. Though I have to come love Cambridge for its beauty, charm and relative quiet at night, my heart still belongs to New York where passion for cultural diversity and brutal honesty rule...
...relief to be home among my own kind where I don't have to put on an act. Though I have to come love Cambridge for its beauty, charm and relative quiet at night, my heart still belongs to New York where passion for cultural diversity and brutal honesty rule...
...assembly," says TIME London correspondent Helen Gibson. "That?s forced them to bring back George Mitchell and start all over again." After a month of meeting the parties, Mitchell will begin a formal review process on September 6, based on the principles adopted last year: an inclusive self-rule assembly, and internationally monitored disarmament by May 2000. And like any good marriage counselor, he?ll start by reminding them of why they signed on in the first place ?- and hope that the alternative remains too ghastly to contemplate...
...Republicans themselves. Speaker Denny Hastert is cracking the party whip as hard as he can ? and he?s not afraid to beg, either, telling members that the GOP?s slender majority (not to mention his own job) is riding on this vote. And he?s breaking the first rule of congressional politics: He doesn?t even know how it?s going to turn out. "This is becoming yet another opportunity for Republicans to embarrass themselves," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Tax cuts are their last signature issue. If they can?t even bring their own party along...