Word: states
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, Albright's greatest success so far has been to create and then maintain unity among NATO's 19-headed coalition. Every morning she gets up at 6 to begin her daily round of hand-holding phone calls. Some are made from her cozy working office at State, others from her Georgetown home. Sometimes she calls a wavering minister directly to tamp down a renegade plan; at other times she will do a bank shot by having Britain's Robin Cook or Germany's Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer call them. The goal is simple: make sure that no country wavers...
...also been developing a long-term strategy for the Balkans: a mini-Marshall Plan to promote lasting stability through economic rebuilding. She pitched the idea--contained in a long memo prepared by the State Department's policy planners and European experts--at a White House meeting. The President invited her to send him what is called a "night note," a proposal that bypasses the slow-moving nsc bureaucracy and goes straight to the Oval Office. That was important, since Albright does not enjoy the privilege of previous Secretaries to meet often with the President alone...
...last week there were signs that Milosevic might be preparing his citizens for a deal with NATO. State-controlled TV led its evening broadcasts with stories about diplomatic efforts to end the war rather than about the conflict itself. More important, the Yugoslav press claimed that Serbian forces had wiped the Kosovo Liberation Army from Kosovo. While this was manifestly untrue--Western reporters visited K.L.A. soldiers inside Kosovo all week--the fact that Milosevic was touting the "victory" suggested he might be looking to declare himself a winner and end the bombing. If not, as the weather continues to clear...
...Oklahomans, the scene of destruction conjured up the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Much of their state was in textbook chaos: trees in living rooms, roofs blown off, crumpled cars in fields where cows should have been and dead livestock festooning parking lots. But at the big storm's extensive ground zero, the landscape was closer to lunar. Returnees sometimes had trouble locating not just their homes but their neighborhood. In Mulhall, a hamlet north of Oklahoma City, the only store was flattened, the water tower torn down, and every one of the 200 homes damaged...
...foundation with a multimillion-dollar endowment. She wanted the foundation to encourage women in science but was told by research institutions that the more important work was being done by men. Schupf persisted, contributing $1.5 million for a female science professor's post at Skidmore College in New York State and funding a lecture series and prize for women at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The institute wants to build a women's health center. "Now they want to know who I know," she says, laughing, "because they know it'll be women who fund...