Word: soled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Being the globe's sole superpower has limited application. It is enough to have shown the gun. It must be drawn only very rarely. Americans, liking to be liked, are sometimes astonished at the hatreds they arouse -- in the Arab world, for example, in Latin America and elsewhere -- hatred generally running south to north, from have-nots to one of the gaudiest of the haves...
...Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, thanks to the little-noted 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act, was given new powers, changing his role from head of the service chiefs to that of the sole, authoritative military adviser to the President...
...island's sole industry is the production of copra, dried coconut meat that is collected by a freighter once a month and taken to the main island to be pressed for its oil. All over the island copra is spread on racks to dry in the sun, producing an inescapable smell of warm suntan...
...members of the committee are representative of the school's three departments. Snow and Levine belong to the department of Administration, Planning and Social Policy; Lightfoot and Murnane represent Human Development; and Perrone is the sole committee member from the department of Teaching, Curriculum and Learning Environment...
United States national security -- not moral obligation -- must be the sole criteria for determining when to intervene militarily. We cannot and should not assume the role of world protector of peace and democracy...