Word: spearheaded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Magic, who with Larry Bird made the N.B.A.'s '80s a decade of dazzle, brought that era to an end with his (and Bird's) retirement. But pro basketball soon found a figure worthy of Johnson's number: O'Neal, a superstar force from the first tip-off, and spearhead of the league's most glamorous freshman class since 1979. O'Neal's team: the Orlando Magic, of course...
...zone, to hold everyone to a higher standard and possibly to make some of the killers ashamed of what they are doing. In an ornate ceremonial room painted toxic green, Wiesel, wonder rabbi out of Auschwitz, sits side by side with Izetbegovic, whom the nationalist Serbs see as the spearhead of a fundamentalist Muslim state, the nightmare of Islamic conquest drifting up out of the 14th century from the Battle of Kosovo, which locked the Serbs into 500 years of Turkish rule. Gunshots outside. No one even blinks. Part of the mise-en-scene...
Counter expressed similar attitudes about Jewish media control in a 1985 article in The Crisis magazine and once referred to a Crimson reporter he had not met as a "that militant Jew." Clearly, Allen Counter is not the one to spearhead Harvard's effort to achieve true racial and ethnic understanding...
Washington still has many untested weapons at its disposal. It could grant the boat people temporary protection, spearhead an oil blockade or try to rally support for an international peace-keeping mission that would guard against human-rights violations. But as last week closed, it was hard to shake the sense that the Bush Administration was giving up on Haitians -- and their democratic aspirations -- for good...
...Create a U.S.-led organization to spearhead Western aid efforts. The West has failed to organize itself to cope with the magnitude of the task the post- cold war world confronts...