Word: unraveling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DESPITE its professed mission to unravel the facts behind the issues, Peninsula has assiduously avoided the sad truth about the Review. The truth that caused Dartmouth's president and entire faculty to condemn it. The truth that caused 2,000 of Dartmouth's students to rally against it. The truth that I hope will lead to its demise...
...operation to decapitate Iraq's leadership and destroy its military capacity. Last week, in a syndicated column, Henry Kissinger said he would be "very uneasy" if the U.S. waited beyond the end of the year to take "military measures." Otherwise, he warned, domestic and international support will begin to unravel. The world, he predicts, would welcome and support a "decisive American move...
...promise of democracy was deferred again in Haiti two weeks ago as the Electoral Council announced that elections scheduled for Nov. 4 would be postponed until perhaps December because of a lack of funds. The news threatened to unravel the caretaker administration of President Ertha Pascal Trouillot, whose six-month-old transition government has already been tarnished by charges of corruption and incompetence. "She cannot make good on her pledge to hold genuine elections, so her administration has lost its reason to exist," observed Gerard Pierre-Charles, a left-wing political analyst. "We are sliding inexorably toward the temptation...
...Saddam's tactics have failed. Rather than unravel, the anti-Baghdad coalition knitted itself more tightly last week. After two weeks of sometimes intense dickering, the U.N. Security Council voted 13 to 0, with Yemen and Cuba abstaining, to authorize "such measures commensurate to the specific circumstances" to enforce the sanctions voted against Iraq four days after the invasion. At Soviet insistence, the phrase "minimum use of force" was dropped, but that is still what the new, vaguer language means. With five dissent-free votes condemning Iraq in three weeks, the Security Council has taken on surprising new life...
Durenberger's golden life began to unravel in 1970, when his first wife died of cancer at 31. With four sons to raise, the eldest only seven, he remarried within a year. Two of his sons developed drug problems, and in 1985 he and his wife temporarily separated and he sought solace in a Christian retreat in a Washington suburb. Rumors that he was having an affair with a 28-year-old secretary were exacerbated when a woman he was with at National Airport screamed that Durenberger had "ruined" her life and knocked him to the floor with her purse...