Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rwanda catastrophe was more than a simple tribal meltdown, it also showed signs of being the kind of conflict that scholars warn will haunt the world for decades to come. These wars are not started by statesmen or fought by armies or ended by treaties. The tribal skirmishes recall the wars of the Middle Ages, when religion and politics and economics and social conflicts all messily intertwined...
...last week, as he lay dying in a stroke-induced coma, the verdict on his life and career was becoming, if not softer, at least more complicated. Messages from around the world poured into the hospital in New York City from the statesmen who admired his reach and strength, from the politicians he had dominated and from the citizens who loved him despite his gaping flaws. By the time he died at 9:08 Friday evening, something close to affection, born of such long familiarity, could be discerned, even from his enemies...
...holdings in publishing, sports, real estate and advertising. He owes much of his dazzling political ascendancy to the fact that he is one of the few top businessmen untainted by Italy's bribes-for-contracts scandal, which during the past two years has implicated more than 5,000 leading statesmen and businessmen and left a vacuum at the heart of Italian politics...
...worst-case speculation is the unprecedented size of the derivatives balloon. Its growth has prompted some Wall Street sages to warn that many of the newfangled instruments could be spinning far beyond anyone's control. The Jeremiahs include investment banker Felix Rohatyn, 65, one of Wall Street's elder statesmen, whose son Nicolas, 33, runs a J.P. Morgan department that uses derivatives to transact business in emerging markets in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. "There's a whole different world in off-balance-sheet transactions that are potentially quite dangerous if people don't know what they're doing...
...that Israel and the P.L.O. will drift back into an endless round of negotiations that go nowhere. Dr. Goldstein has seen to that. There was much talk in Washington last week about how sometimes it takes a great tragedy to bring movement toward peace by forcing statesmen to look at the hell into which they are drifting. Witness Bosnia, where the killing of 68 people by a mortar shell in the Sarajevo market brought a detectable, if far from conclusive, movement toward an agreement. It would indeed be one of history's rare beneficial ironies if Goldstein, against...