Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future is still uncertain," he says...
Ahead as well lay the uncertain prospect of American casualties -- losses that could further envenom what was already a passionate post-cold war debate. The verbal battle over invasion was at bottom a difference of opinion over whether Haiti was worth any American deaths at all, whether they occurred during an invasion or in an attempt to police an unruly and often violent country. It also touched on a perennial national anxiety: when and under what circumstances the U.S. should ever use military force abroad...
...foster democracy and remove a murderous tyranny. Well, then, say critics, why not use military force in Bosnia or Rwanda, where worse atrocities have been committed, and on a much larger scale? Because they are far away and would require a major effort entailing heavy casualties with uncertain support from allies, Clinton's aides rejoin. The U.S. has a special obligation to promote democracy and oppose tyrannous atrocity in its own hemisphere. Haiti is one place where that can be done quickly, with worldwide backing and minimal loss of life. The U.S. should indeed promote democracy among its neighbors, reply...
...then as rebelliousness was really confusion. Brando had a stern, cold father and a dream-disheveled mother -- both alcoholics, both sexually promiscuous -- and he encompassed both their natures without resolving the conflict. Elia Kazan, the director who did the most to shape Brando's work, once said, "He's uncertain of himself and he's passionate, both at the same time...
...while picking up 25 more seats in the House. Given what the President has already endured in the present Congress, losses of that size would give the opposition make-or- break power in the next one, where battles on welfare reform and the global trade pact await, plus the uncertain second act of health care. The impact of the more powerful G.O.P. presence, declares Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, will be to "cut Clinton's term in half...