Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MATTER OF SCALE --HOW HIGH A CRIME...
Controversial Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to Harvard Cambridge last November saw exceptionally tight security, on a scale usually reserved for U.S. presidents...
...Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 28 years. He was sent there because he chose to fight against repression. He did what so many activists and proto-activists claim, by struggling to bring change to a country which exploited its labor, wrongfully imprisoned its citizens and encouraged full-scale segregation of all public facilities...
Because of Muhammad's hatred and propensity to incite, Giuliani tried to move the march from the center of Harlem to a more remote location. But the mayor was rebuked by a federal appeals court, which allowed the march to proceed on a smaller scale citing rights to free speech and due process...
...offered a six-point plan to kick-start stalled growth abroad, and warned that U.S. prosperity was threatened by Congress's decision to reject new IMF funding. Unfortunately, economic intervention requires a political will that may be lacking among the major players. "The crisis demands a response on the scale of the Marshall Plan," says Baumohl. "But Japan is paralyzed, Europe is cautious and Clinton's presidency is weakened. They're unlikely to muster the political support for the spending required by such a plan." With the effects of the global downturn looming just over the U.S. horizon, Clinton...