Word: tampere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...controversial, or as emotional, as those affecting the military. The country's "peace constitution" specifically renounces not only warfare but also the "use of force as a means of settling international disputes." Opinion polls show that there is enduring support for this constitutional proscription. Thus any attempt to tamper with so broad a consensus was bound to cause trouble...
...enough antiaircraft missiles in place to defend it from Iraqi bombers. Another, more wasteful proposal is simply to divert feeder rivers into desert areas. U.S. officials are aware that the Iraqi regime worries about a cutoff: in the early days of the crisis, Baghdad pointedly warned Turkey not to tamper with its water...
...bedroom affair on a corner lot on a quiet street. "I don't believe in living like a raja," he says. "I didn't want to buy a big house on the lake and then have people point at it." And neither he nor Annette saw any reason to tamper with a good thing. "After our early struggle to establish our values, we really felt we'd found our way. Annette's career as a painter had begun, our children had been born, we'd formed a family. Why change?" One small alteration. He wrote Presumed Innocent in the basement...
Such schemes may provoke debate, but they fall far short of providing a rallying cry for right-wingers. Where Social Security is concerned, no significant change is feasible without strong presidential leadership. Bush, mindful of the fierce geriatric lobby, insists, "I don't want to tamper with the Social Security system...