Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Governors knew better. Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson reports that Engler, a notoriously hard bargainer, played "bad cop" on the Republicans' three-man negotiating team. He helped box the Democratic Governors into an agreement that could vex the Clintonites: it maintains the entitlement-trashing that appalls the Administration's liberal wing, but its Governors' seal of approval would make it excruciating for the President to veto any such legislation. It is the kind of product that could get its manufacturer tagged as a national figure...
Izetbegovic's ruling Party of Democratic Action (SDA) was founded in 1990 to pursue Muslim interests. Edhem Bicakcic, a member of its most radical wing, is one of the most powerful men in Bosnia and has declared, "The primary interest of the SDA is a state for Bosniacs [a revived term for Bosnian Muslims], which will secure our survival, and not a common life for which the other nations don't show any interest." During the war, the SDA turned to an increasingly despotic style of leadership. It fortified its position by placing party members in important jobs in industry...
...country's openness toward other religions and cultures remains its most remarkable feature. Despite its extreme wing, the SDA is the only nationalist party in Bosnia that gives some support to the idea of a multiethnic state. It has refrained from openly suppressing opposition parties, and it tolerates independent newspapers and radio that engage in lively and often critical public debate. Izetbegovic's party has also put some effort into cultivating relations with Croat and Serb communities, sponsoring funds for rebuilding Catholic and Serbian orthodox churches, as well as mosques...
...TERRIFYING MINUTES LAST month, 35 pilots were forced to navigate the airspace around Pittsburgh International Airport on a wing and a prayer. As two planes readied to take off from parallel runways and 33 planes cruised the surrounding air corridors, one of the airport's power systems shorted out. That tiny malfunction shut down all radarscopes, telephone lines, landing-instrument systems, radio connections and lights inside the air-control tower. "You have to visualize a radarscope showing two planes aimed at each other from 50 miles away," says Barry Krasner, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. "Your equipment...
...most lyrical--but also the most politically acerbic--of the Ashcan artists was Sloan. A fervent admirer of the social vision of French lithographers, especially Gavarni and Daumier, he kept his satire for the illustrations he did for The Masses and other left-wing magazines. His painted world was more amiable, with its fleshy, rosy girls in dance halls or promenading in Washington Square Park--a Brooklyn Fragonard whispering to a Hester Street Renoir. Sloan saw his people as part of a larger totality, the carnal and cozy body of the city itself, where even the searchlight...