Word: control
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Watergate storm baptized Gergen into political life, along the way teaching him how to stay afloat inside the Beltway. Most importantly, Gergen learned the value of increased control over the relationship between the presidency and the press. And apparently, he learned it better than most...
...Satcher's work in medicine became more national in scope as he accepted an appointment from President Clinton to become the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Ga. He held this position until 1998, when he assumed the post of surgeon general...
...enter the province and make it safe for returning refugees, the struggle for Kosovo may be far from over. "Experience tells us to expect Milosevic to do his utmost to stall, perhaps not withdrawing all of his forces and seeking loopholes in agreements to try and maintain whatever control he can over Kosovo," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "He?ll try to create a situation where it?s hard for NATO to resume bombing and that President Clinton will simply let the issue slide...
...Instead, Morgan says, students are gunning for the business elite. "Over the past 30 years, [it's] shifted more and more to economic control...
...China and Malaysia on their human rights records, yet unlike most other Western countries it still has the death penalty. Is there a disconnect there? Maybe, maybe not. Stun belts, too, have their justifications, but the image -- the wave of the judge's hand, the bailiff and his remote control, the instantly prostrate, urinating defendant -- is enough to give any supposedly civilized democracy a bit of a p.r. problem...