Word: conscripts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have no enthusiasm for. What you're asking is that they believe in something they don't find wholly believable, believe in it because the belief itself if not its object would be good. Fair enough. Only leave them the irony they'll need to accept their fate as conscript crusaders...
Despite postelection euphoria, 1996 turned out to be, in the words of commentator Otto Latsis, "the lost year for reform." More than 30 million people are earning less than Russia's minimum wage. The transformation of Russia's bloated conscript army into a much smaller, more efficient and better-armed fighting machine has not begun. In foreign policy, Yeltsin's more liberal aides had hoped to move Russia further into the mainstream of international relations. Instead, Moscow is bogged down in an ill-tempered exchange with the West over NATO's expansion plans. Western diplomats say the President's absence...
From the first, Kerrey saw his role as more than that of a cash machine; he needed to conscript a few good candidates. A record eight Democrats were retiring, and pundits were predicting that the Republicans would increase their advantage. Kerrey wanted Democrats who could win, and to that end he appears to have sought out candidates in his own image: hardheaded businessmen who understood the necessity of reforming entitlements. If the Senate is a kind of state-by-state referendum on the size and scope of government, Kerrey wanted pragmatists the Republicans would have a hard time branding...
...conquered, however brutal and bloody. In fact, at week's end Russian shells had set the presidential palace in Grozny ablaze and troops were reportedly massing for a new offensive -- this time to be led by specially trained spetsnaz forces rather than the hastily assembled and ill- prepared conscript units...
...Josip Broz Tito built during World War II threatens to fracture along the very ethnic lines that have created Yugoslavia's current miasma. Led by a cadre of generals who are the last bastion of hard-line communism in the country, the officer corps is predominantly Serbian, while the conscript ranks reflect the multiethnic complexion of the Yugoslav federation. Among the 2,300 troops captured by the Slovenes were hundreds who had turned themselves in, testimony to the lack of resolve within the ranks. Many of the troops fighting in Slovenia are raw recruits called up this year. Reflecting...