Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will unveil in coming months. Kosovo, the President believes, has opened the door for NATO to fire shots outside its alliance when three "ifs" are satisfied: if there's a clear moral justification for using force (such as ethnic cleansing on the scale perpetrated by Milosevic), if the trouble spot is strategically important (a pan-Balkan war would have tested Eastern Europe's stability), and if the military operation can be undertaken without exacting a heavy price. It is easy to see these ideas as a possible future for American policy. They suggest a nice admixture of realism with ideology...
...officer died. Davila had tried, in his quiet way, to live beyond the stereotypes that divide police and community, white and Hispanic. And now there were people out there stirring it up, the vultures and hacks, politicizing Atkinson's death before he was in the ground. At the spot where the afternoon sun still draws a cross on the wall, Davila's spirit breaks again. "You had people calling the radio talk shows to take their shots. It started with illegal aliens, and then it was, 'Let's send all the Mexicans back.'" Some of his officers were jumpy...
...stressed out? You're probably right. Researchers who injected volunteers with cortisol--a hormone secreted during stress--report that those who received the highest doses for the longest period (four days) had the most trouble recalling a story they had just been told. There is a bright spot: a week after the hormone injections stopped, memory was completely restored...
According to Stewart, she landed a spot on the show after first sending a "ridiculous" joke fax to its producers last year. Stewart also says the show heard of her as a result of her student leaders sponsored by the Young America's Foundation--an outreach organization with the goal of introducing American youth to the principles of the Conservative Movement...
...There are just two spots or one spot where we could utilize someone who is not recognizable, so to speak, so that's difficult for us and we can't respond to everyone, "Defalco said...