Word: interim
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...President Kim Dae Jung's political platform, and skeptics will have been quieted by the overwhelming enthusiasm the summit generated among South Koreans. But once the dewy afterglow has subsided, years of tough negotiations lie ahead, and Seoul will be in no hurry to relinquish U.S. protection in the interim. And Seoul has it reasons in taking things slowly: South Korea is only beginning to emerge from an economic slump, and even in the unlikely even that Pyongyang were amenable, it can't afford to simply absorb North Korea in the way West Germany did East Germany. Instead, Seoul will...
James LaBua, currently deputy director of labor and employee relations, will assume Roberts' responsibilities on an interim basis...
...peace process that even another round of sequestered summitry with President Clinton may struggle to overcome them. The premise of the Oslo Accord had been that the topics on the table this week were too fraught to be tackled early on, and should be postponed to allow interim agreements to foster greater trust between Israelis and Palestinians. If anything, the reverse has been true, with the result that Arafat and Barak have to make an even greater leap of faith than the late Yitzhak Rabin made with the Palestinian leader at a time when their uniformed men are as prone...
Kathleen Shelby, a partner in FlexTime Solutions, a Maplewood, N.J., staffing firm that supplies interim workers in marketing, public relations and communications to corporations, reports considerable success in placing women who have been out of the work force for as long as 10 years. Most, she says, are mothers who dropped out because they could not put in the 50-hour week many companies now demand of full-timers, but are happy to work for shorter periods...
...that the 1968 federal law supersedes the Supreme Court decision. The 1968 law, a Congressional reaction to outrage over the first Miranda decision, allows "voluntary" confessions to be used in court even if suspects had not been read their Miranda rights. The original ruling, he argues, was a "provisional, interim judgment" to allow Congress to consider other appropriate alternatives. However, even judges who have been critical of Miranda find that argument difficult to accept. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, a conservative who has expressed distaste for the ruling in the past, seemed to acknowledge that Miranda is constitutionally necessary...