Word: exit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Operation Uphold Democracy, says a U.S. diplomat, is a model "only for the national war college: exit strategy as diplomacy." If the U.S. will not engage in nation building, he believes, "it's just pasting on Band-Aids." Johns Hopkins Professor Michael Mandelbaum has recently written in Foreign Affairs that lasting democracy requires the firm foundation of law and a functioning market economy. Haiti needed a "deep, protracted and costly engagement" that American politics today will not tolerate, he argues, and so Clinton's achievements in Haiti can only be judged "provisional, fragile and reversible." The intervention may have been...
...financed presidential campaign limped to a halt Wednesday with the senator telling reporters that his poor showings in Iowa and Louisiana had convinced him he could not win the GOP nomination: "When the voter speaks, I listen, especially when the voter is speaking someone else's name." Gramm's exit brings to an early close a well-organized, nearly two-year old campaign. With an impressive $20-million plus campaignwar chest and several carefully-orchestrated wins in straw polls across the country, Gramm had worked hard to position himself as the conservative alternative to Bob Dole. In recent months, Gramm...
...politicians who withdrew from the spotlight in which they were being stripped of their political integrity. Our political system makes it too ugly for them to suck it up and stick it out. They need to get out quickly and unscathed. For the politicians who came before Mrs. Clinton, exit was the most common form of alleviating the public disgrace perpetuated and exacerbated by the media's disease...
...First Lady is that hers is not an office from which one resigns. Hers is not even an office. She is not an official but a spouse, leaving her in an unenviable position. Residing in a grey realm, miscolored by the press, but unable to leave through the emergency exit door to which her predecessors turned, Hillary Clinton is forced to stick around and endure the verdict, for all intents and purposes already delivered...
...unheralded hero of the three contributors would seal the comeback--Jason Karmanos' doorstep-tally gave the Crimson its first lead of the game at 4-3 with 1:26 remaining, completing the trio of underrated stars who would perhaps erase some of the fans' memories of last years playoff exit at the hands of these same Engineers...