Word: development
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Albright is already off to prove that her outlook can shape the day-to-day business of U.S. diplomacy. During the trip she will begin next week to nine key powers in Europe and Asia, she plans to coax the world's major players into working "together to develop the international system as we're going into the 21st century." That's what another of her predecessors, George Shultz, once adroitly called "gardening"--the diplomacy of nurturing foreign relationships so they can blossom in the service of American interests...
...Anxious or depressed? This won't cheer you. Adults troubled by anxiety or depression may be twice as likely as their calm, happy peers to develop HYPERTENSION later in life...
...report hints at the ravages and despair that can attend advanced AIDS, and of the partnership that can develop between long-term HIV patients and their physicians. But its findings can be used by either side in the legal debate. Champions of a perceived constitutional right to assisted suicide will argue that if so many doctors lacking Kevorkian's idiosyncrasies feel impelled to break a law on their patients' behalf, that law probably needs retooling. Opponents, however, may suggest that the current system works just fine: a statute outlawing assisted suicide, loosely enforced, will be reluctantly violated by doctors when...
...should read that much into Starr's departure. Starr, who said two weeks ago that he had completed his investigation, plans to have a report written and any indictments handed down before August. He had already said he did not plan to prosecute any cases his office may yet develop. A new special prosecutor would have to be appointed to carry any legal actions forward. Pepperdine President David Davenport said Starr told him that "the investigation will go forward" with or without him. "I'm assuming there will be some combination of Ken completing a chapter of his work...
...Sporting a jaunty cowboy hat that would have made her dour predecessor Warren Christopher cringe, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright declared at the start of her first overseas tour that "the Albright Express is launched." The new Secretary faces a challenging agenda. In Europe, she aims to develop a consensus among U.S. European allies on NATO policy toward Russia, soothe Moscow's worries over the July kick-off of NATO's eastward expansion and size up the chances that an ailing President Boris Yeltsin will be able to see an agreement through. Then, on a whirlwind tour of South Korea...