Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passengers aboard the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in Afghanistan had better cancel their New Year's plans. That assessment after the country's ruling Taliban militia on Thursday eliminated what may have been India's strongest negotiating tool - the threat of force. The Taliban has also warned that if the Indian government and the hijackers haven't managed to negotiate an end to the dispute by Saturday, the plane will be forced to leave Afghanistan. "The Taliban's ruling council has decreed that no foreign military personnel will be allowed onto Afghan soil, and that rules out a commando raid...
...Yugoslav People's Army was, according to the American diplomat George Kennan, the third strongest in Europe. A Croatian army did not exist in the early '90s. On the one hand, Tudjman managed to organize resistance and thus prevent the total crushing of a young democracy by tanks--a scenario that would have been comparable to the events in Tiananmen Square...
...soulful voice and harmonics, while "Transatlantic" is a true tear-the-top-off rocker. There are quieter moments as well: with the assistance of hometown friend Lisa Loeb, "Home" portrays the thoughts of a man who has recently found happiness in all that he already has. The album's strongest points, however, are where it weaves in between the happiness and sorrow. "Tower," probably the album's strongest track, exploresthe late-night loneliness of being trapped in a New York hotel...
...Russia bloc, they looked like an unbeatable combination to win both the Duma and the presidency. But public enthusiasm for the war in Chechnya has propelled neophyte prime minister Vladimir Putin into a commanding lead in the presidential stakes, and made his parliamentary allies in the Unity alliance the strongest contenders for second place, with a predicted 12 to 15 percent. Meanwhile, the media owned by Yeltsin backer Boris Berezovsky has ground away at Fatherland-All Russia's lead with a relentless barrage of attacks - even accusing Luzhkov of involvement in the murder of an American businessman...
...Chechnya war, although it also illustrates that Russian politics is something of a funhouse mirror to multiparty democracy. Russia's communist-era nomenklaturacontinue to compete for power among themselves in an ever-shifting series of hidden transactions, in which party politics is something of an afterthought. "The strongest contender besides the Communists is a party that didn't exist until last month," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "More than anything, this election shows how easy it is in Russia, under the aegis of democratic institutions, to create a top-down pro-Kremlin party from scratch and then, with huge...