Word: washingtonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly three years, Washington's vote in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly has been in jeopardy because of the United States' failure to pay nearly $1.6 billion in outstanding dues. Although this debt does not threaten our role in the UN's Security Council, relations between the United States and the UN have soured during the Clinton administration as a result of the debt...
...Securing Washington's role in the General Assembly, though, comes at a heavy price--and in more ways than...
...fragile relations between America and the UN make it crucial that the Clinton administration and Congress come to an agreement and quickly pay Washington's dues. America's UN debt has also been a major sticking point blocking a budget agreement between Congress and the White House...
...says MacLeod. "It could also affect tourism and the country's image abroad. So there's likely to be further tension in U.S.-Egyptian relations unless the investigation's conclusion is based on ironclad evidence." After all, given the conspiracy theorizing that has swept Egypt in response to the Washington leaks, Cairo may be hard-pressed to accept a conclusion based on circumstantial evidence without appearing to be caving...
...weren't lighting any new fires: Keyes went on about America's lost moral compass and Hatch had very little newsworthy to say. On the other hand, in George's absence, a newly aggressive Forbes homed in on Bush's policies. "In nearly all of his answers," says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson, "Steve Forbes took Bush to task on specific policy issues. Forbes has hinted at his disagreements with Bush, but last night was a direct and frontal assault from Forbes, and it gives us a sense of the kind of battle we'll see between these...