Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tired of domination by Belgrade, alienated by linguistic, cultural and religious differences, the Kosovars, as the Kosovo Albanians are called, have long pushed peacefully for freedom from Serb-run Yugoslavia. Now they insist on nothing less than full independence, but Serbia's strongman, Slobodan Milosevic, who set the bloody standard for nationalist retaliation when Croatia and Bosnia tried to break away, is just as determined to block that. As the hatred builds and hard men on both sides pick up their guns, the U.S. and Europe's key powers are once again unable to unite behind any plan for strong...
Buying and selling securities have never been cheaper. Price wars last year slashed the average commission at the 10 largest e-firms from $34.65 to $15.95 a trade. (A trade now costs more than $50 at standard off-line discounters and at least twice as much at full-service firms.) Aggressive discounters on the Internet charge less than $10, and cutthroats such as Web Street Securities charge nothing--that's zilch--to handle trades of more than 1,000 shares of NASDAQ stocks. This rock-bottom pricing reflects the lower costs of e-trading--look, Ma, no broker...
Citing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as aperpetrator who has not been pursued, Dershowitzasked, " What's the standard...
...Defining "organic" has proved difficult for federal authorities looking to create a uniform standard. ?Various states have different requirements on issues such as soil that had been previously fertilized,? says TIME reporter Janice Horowitz. But the USDA?s proposals to allow irradiated, genetically altered and sewage-fertilized food to take the label on the grounds that no synthetic chemicals were used in their production sparked a nationwide campaign. Today?s decision is a victory for both consumers and producers who want to establish the credibility of their products, says Horowitz. It may have left the food-irradiation industry licking...
Having no clue what Johnny said, we fall back on the old standard: "that's interesting, say more about that." Johnny replies, "which part, the part where I used Gramsci to explain the origins of the American Revolution, or the part where I employed a cliometric model of my own design to prove the Civil War had no impact on American society?" At this point, we usually show a movie...