Word: vanguardism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...improve oversight, Markey wants to double, at least, the 110 SEC regulators who police funds. "The regulators are spinning their wheels, not coming close to keeping pace with a decade of spectacular growth," says a senior House staff member. "We're not worried about Fidelity, Vanguard or Merrill Lynch. But we need greater resources to look at the newer funds...
...literature, tabling, holding consciousness-raising demonstrations, and hosting all-day teach-ins on the debt. If you care about your economic future, then you owe it to yourself and your generation to learn more about this crisis and become a part of Harvard Lead or Leave, your generation's vanguard...
Still dewy of eye, Morris looks back on "his" Harper's as a vanguard "in mirroring and interpreting and shaping the configurations of the nation." A calmer view is that the magazine scored some exceptional coups, like Seymour Hersh's expose of My Lai and Norman Mailer's "The Prisoner of Sex." But it also ran too many indulgently edited articles that dribbled on until reeled the mind. The author has chosen to look back on the '60s with a naif's sense of primitive awe, with the result that those laundry lists of the Big Feet he chatted...
...pushed off -- earlier in the week. The Council did what it has done so often to such poor effect: it drew a line in the blood- soaked soil of the Balkans and defied the Serbs to step over it. They lost no time in obliging. On Saturday a vanguard of 60 Canadian blue helmets en route to Srebrenica from Tuzla and an aid convoy from Belgrade failed to cross Serb lines. The soldiers were turned back by local Serb commanders; the aid trucks returned because of shelling in Srebrenica...
...even the floor covering is beyond the scrutiny of Babbitt as he carries out vast changes in the Interior Department and in the government's philosophy toward its public lands. Where conservatives James Watt and Manuel Lujan once presided, Babbitt now speaks as if he were in a vanguard of liberators. "There has been an ideological war going on for the past 12 years," says Babbitt, "and this department has been staff headquarters -- the battle post in Washington for an unrelenting war against the land and the conservation ethic. They said they were after balance, but they really weren...