Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jersey at Washington, 7 p.m.Sacramento at Denver, 9p.m. Boston at New York, 8 p.m. Golden State at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Detroit at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Dallas at L.A. Lakers...
Speakers included Chris Washington of Atlantic Records; Wendy Day, whose Rap Coalition aims to combat the exploitation of urban musicians; and ABC News correspondent Farai Chideya '90, author of "Don't Believe the Hype: CulturalMisinformation about African Americans...
That's why last weekend's NATO summit loomed as such a defining moment. When Clinton invited the 42 members and partners of NATO to Washington for a 50th birthday party, he envisaged a glittering capstone to his diplomatic legacy, grandly positioning the alliance as the bigger, broader 21st century mainstay of pan-European security. Instead he found himself presiding over a council of war. Those who feared that the decision to forgo ground troops from the start is dooming the allied cause set up a clamor for NATO to reconsider. A month after firing off its first cruise missiles...
Perhaps as a result, Washington is determined to squelch rising suspicion that ground troops might well be needed to defeat Milosevic. The Pentagon, the White House and NATO spokesmen spent much of the three-day summit insisting their sustained bombardment of Yugoslavia was paying off. Officials rolled out numbers to tick off progress: after 3,000 target strikes, 16 early-warning radars were gone, half of Serbia's MiG-29s destroyed, two oil refineries eliminated, 25% of stored fuel wiped out, all four vital rail and road links to Kosovo damaged. Never mind that 3 of every 4 bombs were...
...TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon is the coauthor of "No Heroes" with Danny O. Coulson, founder and former commander of the recently formed FBI Hostage Rescue Team. She's ready to assume that the SWAT team in Littleton, which was a hodgepodge of officers from the Denver and Jefferson County police departments, did the best they could. She also thinks they could have done better...