Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff members yesterday remained criticalof a move that they see drastically cutting thepublic sphere of the museum which has existedsince...
...players and coaches on the sidelines begin to realize that something special is happening. Champi scrambles and eludes the Yale pass rush before lateraling the ball in the general direction of a Harvard player. The player who picks up the ball is tackle Fritz Reed. He gathers the bouncing sphere and makes his way 23 yards, just inside Yale...
...face one great problem in achieving menacing superpower status--they're isolated. The Soviet Union openly maintained alliances in, and sent arms to, every corner of the world, from Cuba to Syria to Madagascar to Vietnam. The United States and the Soviet Union were constantly at odds in every sphere of influence. One power tried to propound democracy while the other strove to spread Communism. The Soviets also had their own orbit of similarly modelled republics--an effective buffer to the West...
...most eloquent spokesman for embracing the East is Czech President Vaclav Havel. He argued last month that "we have always belonged to the Western sphere of European civilization and share the values upon which NATO was founded and which it exists to defend...
...hand-wringing that accompanied Boris Yeltsin's crushing of the uprising in Moscow last month deflected attention from an issue that should keep U.S. policy makers awake at nights: Russia's attempt to resurrect an exclusive sphere of influence across the former Soviet Union. Like so many dominoes, the former Soviet republics are succumbing to Moscow's reassertion of imperial prerogatives. The process is now hurtling toward its logical conclusion with Moscow's sights set on Ukraine--52 million people strategically situated in the heart of Central Europe...