Word: pro
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...Montenegro's pro-Western leadership now faces an acute dilemma that could have global consequences: It either backs away from its path of confrontation with Belgrade, or presses forward for full independence. Milosevic has called the bluff of Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic, who has been moving steadily in the direction of seceding. Belgrade has now signaled clearly that it's willing to risk violent confrontation to keep its last non-Serb republic. The situation is fraught: Montenegro provides Yugoslavia's only access to the sea; in addition, some 30 percent of Montenegro's population remain loyal to Milosevic...
...Asia by exploiting their hostility to Blatter over the distribution of voting rights between continents, and somehow managed to persuade New Zealand delegate Charles Dempsey to abstain rather than vote for South Africa as mandated by the region he represented. A tie would have given the casting vote to pro-South Africa Blatter, but Dempsey's abstention gave Germany a 12-11 advantage. Dempsey later intimated that he'd been under "unsustainable" personal pressure, and the BBC reported that he'd received death threats...
...says over a portobello-mushroom sandwich. "That means everything from getting bigger to knowing when to wear a suit." Indeed, the fringe party has abandoned its own fringe. Nader is running virtually unopposed. His Green opponents--Jello Biafra, formerly of the punk band Dead Kennedys, and Stephen Gaskin, a pro-marijuana activist--have minuscule support...
Hanging over it all was a certain legal proceeding. Days earlier, Microsoft got rare good news: Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson stayed his order dividing up the company pending appeal. Microsoft lawyers were busily drafting briefs urging the Supreme Court to hold back and let a presumably more pro-Microsoft appeals court get a crack at it first. But in Building No. 33, Gates was dodging the topic. Pressed by a reporter, he insisted nothing in .NET had been influenced by the case. Some observers, however, saw it as at least partly an effort to fend off a break-up. Jackson...
...Republican National Convention] Yes, for certain politicians to see if they can be pro-choice and still be considered a vice-presidential contender