Word: strong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. Indeed, NATO is concerned that the outflow of Kosovar Serbs will create unstoppable momentum toward independence for Kosovo, which would sharply divide Europe. And with the Serbs reluctant to trust the promised protection of those who were bombing them only two weeks ago, a strong Russian presence is NATO?s best bet for maintaining a multiethnic Kosovo...
...glad that David S. Jackson, who attended the Electronic Entertainment Expo of the video- and computer-game industry [VIDEO GAMES, May 24], did not write an article on how these games are causing violence in children. As long as the children who play them have a strong grip on reality, violent video games are fine. There are so many people who regularly play video games and are unaffected by them that the games are obviously not to blame for violence. GREGORY A. KNOX Millbrae, Calif...
BONE BUILDERS Elderly women concerned about osteoporosis may have a kinder, gentler way to build strong bones. Low doses of hormone-replacement therapy, combined with calcium and vitamin D supplements, produce minimal side effects and may increase bone mass just as effectively as today's higher-dose hormone regimens...
...crowds of suffragist opponents still makes shocking reading. Women were battered in demonstrations and, on hunger strikes, brutally force-fed in prison. When these measures risked taking lives, the infamous Cat & Mouse Act was passed so that a dangerously weakened hunger striker would be released and then rearrested when strong enough to continue her sentence. Under its terms, Mrs. Pankhurst, age 54 in 1912, went to prison 12 times that year. No wonder she railed, "The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood. The militancy of women has harmed no human life save...
...walking at their head (if she wasn't in jail). Her example was followed internationally: the U.S. suffragist Alice Paul, who had taken part in suffragist agitation when she was a student at the London School of Economics, imported Pankhurst militancy to the U.S., leading a march 5,000 strong...