Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before domestic support collapsed. The Iraq crisis is only 4 1/ 2 months old, and there has not been a single U.S. combat death. Yet some sectors of the home front are already in the throes of a full-scale antiwar movement. Bush's attempt to fill the conceptual vacuum left by the end of the cold war with talk about a new world order apparently works better in the United Nations than in the United States...
Attempts by several states to fill the policy vacuum floundered this year, and the tactics of the environmental lobby were at least partly responsible. The contest over California's "Big Green," Proposition 128, for instance, was marked by overstatement on both sides of the issue. Prominent environmentalists, including EPA Administrator William Reilly, were troubled by the sweep of some of Big Green's provisions, like the pesticide curbs that would have banned any chemical found to cause cancer in any rat. Given the legitimate debate over many of the provisions in the proposition's 16,000 words, it was entirely...
...research community has addressed the problems on a short-term, piecemeal basis, essentially looking at the problem only as long as the one- year budget cycle of Congress. That style of leadership has led to a virtual roller coaster of boom and bust. We are now suffering from a vacuum in national leadership for science in general and health science in particular...
...correct that the problem isn't so much a vacuum of leadership as it is a political brawl for leadership -- among the supporters of the human genome project, the AIDS lobby, cancer researchers...
...past, the final clubs have affected my life little; now I have to acknowledge their place and their impact on my position in the Harvard community. I have to acknowledge their impact on our friendship. Final clubs do not exist in a vacuum. When you go there, you leave our communal space for a private space all too often unaccountable to the social values and standards upheld by an open and diverse community...