Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charged with implementing these ideas in Kosovo was General Sreten Lukic, a high-ranking member of the state-security apparat and a personal friend of Milosevic's. Lukic boldly described Horseshoe last fall to Western diplomats as a massive clockwise sweep that would finally crush the K.L.A. Lukic told his visitors he hoped to finish the mission by mid-October. But that plan collapsed when it became apparent that the K.L.A., which had become expert at hiding and fighting in Kosovo's rough hills, wasn't going to cave in easily...
...Belgrade's military chiefs went back to the planning board. Instead of the massive "sweep" of the original attack, they developed a wickedly clever alternative: a series of smaller sweeps against the K.L.A. that would be combined with a wholesale assault on the civilian population. This two-punch would have the double purpose of depriving the K.L.A. of ground support and permanently altering Kosovo's demographics. Cities and towns would be emptied to depopulate the province. The VJ would shell villages so the police and paramilitaries could move in to put the population to flight, torch their houses and kill...
...termed modernization, a better and kinder way of doing things that should be acceptable to everyone. I realize changes of this type generally come with good intentions and can be very positive. We are wiser and more enlightened now and there are times when it is best to sweep away the old habits of 1811. Traditions like the exclusion of women and minorities from full participation in the Harvard community have been rightfully "revised...
...termed modernization, a better and kinder way of doing things that should be acceptable to everyone. I realize changes of this type generally come with good intentions and can be very positive. We are wiser and more enlightened now and there are times when it is best to sweep away the old habits of 1811. Traditions like the exclusion of women and minorities from full participation in the Harvard community have been rightfully "revised...
...skittish lot: they love a winner, hate being left behind, and once a bunch start to go, the rest tend to follow. This time around, there was so much hunger for a winner that Bush could actually hope to do something no one had ever managed before: sweep the money primary, the first big test of whom the insiders like, and pretty much coast through the ones that involve actual voters. The other candidates, still hoping that a surprise breakout in Iowa or New Hampshire would win them enough attention to make up for all the ads they couldn...