Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protect their homes and fight. Aida Catovic, 32, left Sarajevo on May 18 with her two small children. They escaped just in time: the next convoy out was detained by Serbian gunmen, who took 5,000 people hostage for three days. After taking the grueling bus ride to Split in Croatia, Catovic flew to Zagreb. Now living with distant relatives of her in-laws, she waits anxiously for the daily call from her husband in Sarajevo. "The only question I ask is, 'Are you all still alive?' " she says. "And every day I worry what the answer will be tomorrow...
Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 will split his time between the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray and the University Program in Ethics and the professions after he steps down June...
...three-man race means a three-way split, that requires both Bush and Clinton to shore up their base support at all costs. "The question we're asking ourselves is whether there are enough conservatives and Republicans to make up 35% of the electorate," explained one Bush official. "Is our base big enough to win an election in a three-man race...
Slow to realize Perot's potential, Bush's lieutenants are still split over the answer. White House chief of staff Sam Skinner, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and campaign chief Bob Mosbacher continue to doubt that the Perot challenge will survive past Labor Day. But Quayle, campaign chairman Bob Teeter and manager Fred Malek, stunned that Bush is dropping in the polls even while the economy is improving, are starting to hedge their bets...
...House, elected in November, that would deal with the question. The G.O.P. is likely to gain seats in the fall, so more state delegations may be evenly split. Because each state has only one vote and a majority of 26 states is required, a decision could be elusive...