Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China fears the precedent this election will set," said Lee. "Coercion and intimidation by China will not bring Taiwan to its knees. Military action will only foster more anti-China sentiment...
...election. The official Xinhua News Agency said China will conduct joint ground, naval and air exercises in the Taiwan Straits starting Monday, even as it declared the end of eight days of missile launches near the island. China has said that the exercises are intended to quash pro-independence sentiment on Taiwan as it prepares for its first direct presidential election on March 23. The new exercises would straddle the election in which pro-independence President Lee Teng-hui is expected to win another term. "China is hoping to derail Lee Teng-hui's election, but they are practical enough...
Then in 1989, environmental activist Sam LaBudde galvanized public opinion by releasing dramatic videos of drowning dolphins. In 1990, StarKist, the world's largest tuna canner, responding to consumer sentiment, announced that it would buy only tuna caught by other methods. That same year, LaBudde's group, Earth Island Institute, successfully sued the Bush Administration to bar tuna imports from Mexico and other Latin American countries that failed to protect dolphins. European nations followed suit, which extended the embargo to an estimated 80% of the canned-tuna consumer market...
...caged circle she loved (her father Otto) and which she hated (the dentist Fritz Pfeffer). We have this remarkable girl's X ray. But Anne was no solitary saint; she was surrounded by helpers and victims. Many of them are still alive, bearing witness without stooping to sentiment. This film is their story too. Anne Frank Remembered is a group portrait, a social history told, with pained eloquence, by the survivors...
LAST YEAR THE REPUBLICAN FRESHMEN rolled into Washington toting the Contract with America and vowing to dilute and roll back decades of laws and regulations, including those aimed at ensuring clean air, clean water and unsullied wilderness areas. But because they misread popular sentiment on the environment, the G.O.P. took a beating in the polls on this issue. Now as many as 91 House Republicans are voting with the Democrats on environmental measures. Shortly after the House reconvenes this week, Speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to announce the formation of a task force to review the Republican approach...