Word: bulwark
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...unprecedented national awakening and cultural flowering of, dare anyone say it, nationhood?not in constitutional terms but, perhaps more importantly, in cultural terms. The 22.2 million Taiwanese?and the rest of Asia as well?have now posited a Taiwan that is so much more than cold war bulwark and superpower pawn. The island that used to be thought of as the un-China, the anti-Mao or, later, the chip fabricator, the hardware producer, is now the bustling cultural center of Greater China. Of course the mainland still dominates the Chinese world in geopolitical and economic terms, but whose soap...
...National Alliance. Last time he was in power, his majority depended on the support of the Northern Leagues, and that proved to be his downfall. This time, Forza Italia appears to have emerged as the largest party in Italy, having replaced the traditional Christian Democratic Party as the bulwark of the right. Although he still has the Northern Leagues in his coalition, their share of the vote was slashed to 4 percent and that means they?ll think twice before bolting his coalition, as they did in 1996, to bring it down...
...choosing. For now, though, the generals have urged Ecevit-who was visiting Macedonia while Sezer was in Egypt-not to resign and add to the air of instability. For its part, the U.S. applauded Ankara's decision to float the lira, saying its nato ally-an important bulwark in a volatile region-had been achieving important macroeconomic and structural goals and would continue...
...Harvard earned a reputation as a bulwark against McCarthyism by refusing to fire faculty targeted by McCarthy and his colleagues...
Rising tensions in the republic have rung alarm bells in Washington, which backs the Montenegrin government as a bulwark against Milosevic and which now must decide what to do if the Serbian President moves against the U.S. ally, either with overt military action or a covert coup. Montenegro may be a very small place, but top Clinton Administration officials are saying it has the potential to produce the most serious foreign policy crisis of the waning days of the current Administration--or the first days of the next...