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...doubles side, Roiter and Granat would team up to be the top seed in the same way that Majmudar was in singles. The Roiter/Granat duo was only 2-11, but the other two teams--Majmudar/Torres and sophomore Julia Kim/Hricko--were a combined 24-9 in dual matches...
...West had to change the way it did business. That effort eventually bore fruit in the form of several new moves, most of which were hammered out in a series of follow-up nato meetings in Brussels. Perhaps the most important change was insistence that the so-called dual-key arrangement, which gave U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali veto authority over nato air strikes, be scrapped. (Accordingly, the U.N. chief did not learn of last week's bombings until just after the air strikes began, when a note was passed to him as he dined with friends...
...operation in Bosnia is dedicated to peacekeeping under the authority of the U.N., then nothing can happen without the U.N.'s approval, and nothing can happen that is not in accordance with various U.N. resolutions regarding Bosnia. Air strikes, for example, have been subject to what was called the dual-key system: U.N. military commanders have had to ask for NATO warplanes to hit a specific target, and U.N. civilian representatives have had to approve the request. In the past that happened rarely and resulted in small attacks that were universally dismissed as "pinpricks...
...fate of that reform bill revealed the danger of running the Senate and running for President at the same time. Dole's dual role is both enviable and impossible: he can place himself right in the middle of any issue he wants to address, demonstrating wisdom and leadership while denying his rivals the chance to advance their campaigns from the Senate floor. But he also has more to lose; his tough regulatory bill was a hit with conservative New Hampshire voters, but not with enough moderate Senators to prevent the embarrassing defeat. A watered-down version might have passed...
...veneer of global civilization thatenvelopes the modern world and the consciousnessof humanity, as we all know, has a dual nature,bringing into question at every step of the waythe very values it is based upon or which itpropagates. The thousands of marvelousachievements of this civilization that work for usso well and enrich us can equally impoverish,diminish and destroy our lives, and frequently do.Instead of serving people, many of these creationsenslave them. Instead of helping people to developtheir identities, they take them away. Almostevery invention or discovery--from the splittingof the atom and the discovery of DNA to televisionand...