Word: buffer
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...string of villages inside Serbia, or face eviction by the Yugoslav army. And though new president Vojislav Kostunica later postponed the deadline indefinitely - saying he wanted to give diplomacy a chance - the situation poses a huge dilemma for NATO, since the villages in question are inside a three-mile buffer zone from which Belgrade is barred from sending troops, under the agreement that ended last year's Kosovo conflict...
...While the Western alliance blames the latest troubles on an offshoot of the Kosovo Liberation Army, and has stepped up its operations against the group on the Kosovo side of the border, it has also warned Belgrade against sending troops into the buffer zone. But for President Kostunica, the continued presence of hundreds of heavily armed guerrillas from Kosovo on Serbian soil killing Serbian policemen is intolerable - particularly when the Milosevic-led opposition is charging that Serbia's government is now in the hands of its enemies. Kostunica's message to NATO has been, essentially, either the West deals with...
Taken as a whole, such global events underscore the increasingly important presence of the United States within the global community. But, as Nov. 7 draws near, they also highlight a host of challenges that will confront our next president. Without Congress as a buffer, the president must handle global issues at the most intimate of levels. Such interaction requires a brand of leadership that can both bridge nation-states and acquiesce heads-of-state...
Harvard invests in commodities as a way to buffer its portfolio against losses in other investment categories, so the strong performance in this area came along with smaller gains in stocks this year...
...settled into college, that vision slowly got pushed to the back of my mind. I picked a concentration, I got involved in a couple of campus extracurriculars, I got roommates and friends. British universities and their trimester system demand a year's enrollment, and without the buffer of Advanced Standing, the possibility of spending a year abroad and still graduating on time seemed incredibly slim. The drawbacks kept adding up. Falling behind on my classes, graduating with a different class, missing a House crew season--they all began to seem like too heavy a price to pay for an international...