Word: may
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...downturn could have a silver lining if it forces Americans to confront the legacy of 1980s-style borrowing and spending, which threatens to stifle growth for years to come. "We simply cannot go on doing business as usual in so intensely competitive a world," Sinai said. "This downturn may be a catalyst that will wake up the nation." If the recession does help inspire the U.S. to face its long-term economic problems, hard times could help achieve what eight years of debt-fueled prosperity could...
...Shelby Steele argues, preferential treatment for blacks has an even more pernicious cost: it creates corrosive doubt in the eyes of both whites and blacks about the worth of any black achievement. However much people may deny it, no one can see a black professor or doctor without having the thought run through his mind: Did he make it on his own or did he get through on a quota? These doubts gratuitously reinforce in both blacks and whites a presumption of racial inferiority...
...toughest jobs was getting the U.S. to believe that he and Gorbachev meant what they said. A breakthrough occurred at a private dinner in May 1989 when Shevardnadze convinced his American counterpart, James Baker, that Moscow was determined to deal with the weaknesses of its socialist system and to build a peaceful international environment that would allow it to focus on its internal ailments...
...supposed to tell such secrets to the enemy. In truth, what Waller said should come as no surprise to anyone who has been tracking the progress of American deployment in the gulf. That he said it, however, was a shocker. Waller's indiscretion signaled to Saddam that the Rubicon may not be crossed on Jan. 15, thereby undercutting Washington's effort to scare him out of Kuwait without a fight...
...may prove, of course, to have been a false message -- the Bush Administration may opt for a swift war after all. But now that a senior officer has made headlines with his reservations, the political risks of such a move have been multiplied. Should a mid-January offensive bring high casualties, President Bush would stand accused of sending U.S. soldiers into battle unprepared, something he has repeatedly promised the American people he will...