Word: walleted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Foreign policy is confusing in the post-cold war world, and with the dizzying variations on isolationism and interventionism available to politicians and commentators, it's hard to keep straight where they stand on important conflicts. Here is a convenient, only slightly larger than wallet-size guide...
...incredibly alert manager called "the police" who caught the thief outside Yenching Restaurant and gave me back my wallet. I realized half-way through the arrest that "the police" were not Cambridge Police, as I had expected for a theft in the Square, but the familiar HUD officers. The police response was quick, efficient, and courteous to both me and the thief--in short, everything I had always expected, and experienced, from...
...example, a Japanese exchange student killed in California was left dead with his wallet and belongings, yet the police still insisted it was an attempted robbery rather than a hate crime, said Helen Zia, former executive editor of Ms. magazine and currently director of an Asian women's shelter...
...remember getting into the cab, giving the driver my address, throwing up all over myself as the cab left the Square, and the driver telling me that there would be a cleaning charge. I woke up on the couch in my basement with my wallet empty, and naked from the waist down," recounts one proud Exonian who asks for anonymity...
...survival and of the peace process generally. As nothing else, a thriving Palestinian economy can stay the Arab fundamentalists' hand. But "if ((the West Bank's)) economy continues to more closely resemble Somalia's than Singapore's," says an Arafat adviser, "then all bets are off." With America's wallet thin, Clinton must craft a massive multilateral aid effort, much as the Administration brokered funds for Russia. Clinton can also encourage private investment and help fashion a Middle East common market. "It is yet to be proved that this is one of the great moments of history," says former Israeli...