Word: spoilers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pakistan last week for meetings with Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, it was predictable that the rockets would come in more heavily than ever. Last week's barrage left 600 people dead and almost 2,000 wounded. "Hekmatyar cannot get power, so he has become a complete spoiler," explains Islamabad columnist Mushahid Hussain. Unless the carnage stops, there may be few spoils left for the victor...
...Arab party should conclude a separate deal. Even if Damascus-Jerusalem talks do proceed, Rabin has taken a very tough line on returning the Golan Heights, captured in the 1967 war. Yet without Moscow as a patron, Assad has little choice but to renounce his traditional role of spoiler and board the peace train if he wants access to Western trade and investment...
...Being spoiler at the Earth Summit is a stunning role for the U.S., which after World War II was the driving force behind the creation of the United Nations and the World Bank. In the campaign to fashion a new environmental order, however, other nations are taking the lead. Canada and Germany, among others, are championing the biodiversity treaty, Scandinavian countries have imposed stiff taxes to discourage energy consumption, and Japan has sharply boosted its environmental aid to developing nations. At Reilly's press conference, one reporter impudently mentioned that Japan's pledge of $200 million to help clean...
...three-way race, and 25% of Bush backers say the same. But the who-does-it-hurt-the-most question is fast becoming irrelevant. If he could keep his support through the fall -- the ultimate challenge for an independent candidate feeding on voter protest -- Perot would not be a spoiler but the front runner in the popular vote for President...
...alternative. "Tsongas is Greek for 'none of the above,' " quipped political analyst Kevin Phillips. Buoyed by his showing, Tsongas weighed a possible re-entry into the race for two days before deciding to stay out. He saw no real chance of winning the nomination and refused to be a spoiler, a term that bothered Brown...