Word: truces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BEFORE: a cease-fire is signed, the guns fall silent, hopes rise. Then somewhere in Bosnia a sniper's bullet or a mortar round or a tank attack sheds blood, and war begins again. Countless times since the start of the wars of Yugoslavia in 1991, a truce has been declared. Each time it has collapsed. Last week U.S. diplomats tried again, negotiating a cessation of hostilities that could take effect as early as Tuesday. But in contrast to the many failures of the past, there is a chance this one could last, clearing the way for a settlement...
With presidential veto threats hovering over many of the 13 spending bills that are needed to keep the government functioning into the new fiscal year, which begins this week, the President and the Republican congressional leadership reached a temporary truce. A compromise stopgap spending measure will fund government agencies at reduced levels until Nov. 13. It remains to be seen whether the extension will prove long enough for the President and Congress to hammer out their differences. Meanwhile, an unexpectedly fierce House g.o.p. rebellion defeated final versions of defense and environmental spending bills...
Spin doctors in Washington and Tokyo to the contrary, the eleventh-hour deal is more of a truce than a real peace. To be sure, the pact left both sides momentarily ebullient. In Tokyo an official of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry reported after the deal was struck, "They're so happy that they're giddy over there" -- over there meaning in the office of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. And by transatlantic telephone Bill Clinton told U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, "Hey, Mick, congratulations. It sounds like you did great." It may not have been a cigar...
Just days afternegotiating a truce in a bitter trade war with Japan over autos, the Clinton Administration has launched a major investigation into charges by Kodak that Japan is using unfair trade practices to strangle its sales there. "It is critical that U.S. firms achieve full access to Japan's market, a market roughly comparable in size to that of the United States," Trade Representative Mickey Kantor said today. Kodak has exhaustively documented its allegations that Japanese film giant Fuji owns or controls most of the film distribution networks in Japan and has limited Kodak to a market share...
Gates and Microsoft have demonstrated what the armed-truce approach can achieve. The company is a national treasure, the undisputed leader in a business now crucial to everybody's life. What Microsoft has yet to discover-and what the world is waiting to learn-is whether the qualities that brought about its triumphs will somehow make it falter...