Word: historicization
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Even so, the emergence of a black market for the essential material of mass destruction is a historic and nightmarish challenge for the world. It makes the threat of nuclear proliferation far more urgent and increases the number of characters who could do it themselves. "We've crossed a threshold...
These assaults on the World Bank, which have surfaced in several academic books and in speeches by congressional leaders, have pushed president Lewis Preston, a former chairman of the J.P. Morgan banking company, to initiate what may become historic changes at the bank. In 1992 he launched an overhaul of...
Yet the truce could prove only temporary. A lot of Vermonters think of the battle in symbolic terms, referring to the store chain as "Sprawl-Mart," a term conveniently supplied last year by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wal-Mart opponents vow to fight the retailer's efforts to...
If he does send in a military force, Clinton insists it will be a multinational operation backed by the U.N. In practice a multilateral force for Haiti would have to be drawn from other Caribbean and Latin American states -- all of which have responded with varying degrees of reluctance because...
| Although coverage of the 25th anniversary of Woodstock may make it seem as if everyone in America under 30 was digging Jimi and Janis in the rain, in reality there were but 400,000 revelers at Max Yasgur's farm. So what was the rest of America doing? A sampling...