Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...nearly 50 years since Henry Luce published his essay "The American Century" in LIFE. It was a passionate argument for intervention in World War II and a summons to global leadership, an appeal for America to do its duty toward itself and toward mankind. The 20th century, wrote Luce, must be, "to a significant degree, an American Century...
...there are still tasks that only the U.S. is able and willing to undertake. It also shows that the U.S. cannot and should not undertake them alone. In the emerging, decentralized world, no single power will play the kind of predominant part that was possible in the 19th and 20th centuries. It will be an era of diffused power. In his book Bound to Lead, political scientist Joseph Nye Jr. speaks of "soft" or "co-optive" power, that is, indirect means of influence: winning others over through one's ideas or acting in concert with allies and through international organizations...
Restic will be counting on Lazarre-White to get the ball to those wide-open receivers, especially tight end Andy Lombara, whom Hofher rated as one of the league's best players. Harvard's 20th-year coach said he planned to open up the Multiflex this week and even promised to unleash a trick play...
...agenda is not to subvert rent control but to make it better in this its 20th year," Reeves said. "It is important for people in Cambridge to know the system is being attacked by a small group of people...
...seems likely that historians will judge him more kindly than many of his contemporaries do. He may even find his way into Poland's pantheon of 20th century heroes, joining Walesa and Jozef Pilsudski as men who marched briskly to the tattoo of their times. "Some time will have to pass before Jaruzelski can be looked at by Poles in a completely objective way," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "But time may work to his credit...