Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chaos in the Balkans carries threats to European security. The tidal wave of refugees driven from Croatia and Bosnia is choking the absorptive capacity of neighboring nations. Since those who have driven away the exiles have no intention of letting them return, a more or less permanent and costly place must be found for several million embittered, possibly disruptive people -- the Palestinians of the 1990s...
...Sulzberger returns by subway from jury duty, talking about it as a great adventure rather than an onerous task, he bounds into the company cafeteria for a late-afternoon yogurt and a chance to wave to a few troops. If there is a hand among the 300 in the newsroom he hasn't shaken, it is not for lack of trying. "I'm a journalist who gets off at the wrong floor now," he is fond of saying...
...wave of techno "raves" energizes the pop scene...
...said he made the decision on his own as a response to the growing wave of protest against the album's distributor, Warner Bros. Records, and its parent company, Time Warner. The rapper claims that Warner Bros. Records staff members had received death threats. Police groups had called for a boycott not only of the album but of all Time Warner products. Some record stores had already pulled Body Count off their shelves...
...Both call it a multinational and mainly European responsibility. Both support the Sarajevo airlift, but that is just a Band-Aid. Neither man has offered a plan for bringing the carnage in the splintering republics to an end, or a clear policy on how to manage the dangerous separatist wave sweeping the world. The Clinton camp's critique is mainly hindsight: Bill wouldn't have held on to the sanctity of Yugoslav unity so long, Bill wouldn't have signaled Serbia that the U.S. would not resist its aggression as the Bush Administration did, Bill would have acted sooner...