Word: sri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Indian peacekeeping forces arrived in Sri Lanka nearly three years ago to try to end a brutal civil war, exultant crowds greeted them with flowers and handshakes. But when the last batch of 2,000 soldiers trooped onto a waiting ship at the eastern port of Trincomalee last week, completing a six- month withdrawal of 70,000 men, not a single civilian showed up to bid them goodbye. If the locals had anything to say to the "peace-keepers," whose presence brought not peace but one of the bloodiest chapters in Sri Lanka's already violent history...
...Norway, India, England, and Sri Lanka, women have attained positions of power during the 20th century, said Dessima M. Williams, a 1989-90 fellow at the Bunting Institute and past ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada...
...discipline on programmers that engineering standards impose on, say, bridge designers. A program like AT&T's faulty switching system, however, which can contain a million lines of code, is more complex than any bridge. "Standards have not been developed," says Donn Parker, a senior management consultant at SRI International. "Software is not predictable...