Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1960s, while running the GRU's key listening post in Rangoon, Polyakov gave the CIA everything the Soviets collected from there on the Vietnamese and Chinese armed forces. Rotated back to Moscow as head of the GRU's China section, he photographed crucial documents tracking that country's bitter split with Moscow. A CIA specialist on Sino-Soviet relations drew on rich detail from a Soviet source -- whom he learned just last week was Polyakov -- that enabled the analyst to conclude confidently that the Sino-Soviet split would persist. The paper was used by Henry Kissinger, helping him and Nixon...
...Democratic leaders announced a bill that would provide universal coverage and require employers to pay most of their workers' insurance costs, with subsidies provided for small businesses. In the Senate, where opposition to employer payments is tougher, majority leader George Mitchell indicated he might propose that employers and workers split the cost of insurance fifty-fifty -- but only as a last resort if voluntary measures fail to achieve universal coverage. Minority leader Bob Dole grumbled ominously that Republicans would not be rushed into approving a plan they didn't like...
...Adams: No, not at all. There is no evidence at all of the perennial suggestion of a Republican split; there will be no Republican split. The difficulty is caused by the fact that until we kick-started this process there was no talk about a peace settlement. We had to bring the British government reluctantly around to the notion of looking for a new arrangement. We have to make sure we have a solid foundation; there are elements of the Downing Street Declaration, a joint peace plan presented by Prime Ministers John Major of Britain and Albert Reynolds of Ireland...
...naturally. In a two-party system, the party on the left never fears losing voters to the left of its policy stances, so it can only gain voters my moving right. The opposite goes for the party on the right. Eventually, both end up in the center and they split the vote evenly. Of course, this positioning makes democracy exceedingly dull. In stead of majority rule, only a small minority is truly satisfied while the overwhelming majority just copes. Politics becomes a sham, and two parties aren't even necessary anymore. In twenty years, it could be that the names...
This would be a normal day's work for these fire fighters, and so it might have remained had not something terrible happened that Wednesday afternoon. Split into two crews, most Storm King fighters were apparently working below the fire's edge, trying to keep it from creeping down the 1,000 ft. to where it would menace the traffic on Interstate 70. Suddenly the wind wheeled around 180 degrees and began gusting at 47 m.p.h. The fresh infusion of oxygen into superheated air created a blowup, an unconfined explosion of unimaginable power. In a matter of moments, the fire...