Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...token participation in the coalition by Japan. Tokyo was paralyzed by indecision, convincing Ozawa that his colleagues were too deep into the pork barrel to take on the challenges facing modern Japan. He believes government must play a more active role in international peacekeeping efforts, and that Tokyo must sweep away the economic regulations and other barriers that play havoc with trade relations and keep consumer prices and taxes artificially high at home. "In our current political setup," says Ozawa, "you don't have ( to engage in serious debate or take responsibility for anything. We must create a system...
...Communist Party insider. "Robaina and Lage are Castro's natural inheritors. They realize they will have to open Cuba, but they want to be in power before they negotiate an opening." The yummies, however, are in a race against time: in the post-cold war world, turmoil could sweep Cuba before they are ready to take over...
...Lakers had won the NBA title two years in a row, but the Bad Boys from Motown ended the dream with a four-game sweep in the finals...
...bitter rival, should duke it out for the title of most beautiful star on the Asian screen. Cheung wins, because this is his story, and he is equal to the doomed sensitivity of the role. Thanks in no small part to his presence, and performance, Concubine has the sweep and pang of a novel that keeps you reading till dawn, then lives in your dreams...
...enough tough foreign crises require his careful attention. The real parallel, though, is the economy, which was everything then and is everything now. "What is at stake," Kennedy said, putting matters in their proper perspective at Yale in 1962, "is not some grand warfare of rival ideologies which will sweep the country with passion but the practical management of a modern economy. What we need is not ((party)) labels and cliches but more basic discussion of the sophisticated and technical issues involved in keeping a great economic machinery moving ahead . . ." No, Bob Dole argues today, it's "a fundamental difference...