Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balance the budget and eliminate the federal deficitwithin ten years. While offering to cut most discretionary spending programs by 20 percent, the President saidhe would not cut education or health services for the elderly. Other priorities:give tax cuts only to the middle class, not to upper-income Americans, protect services for poor children while cutting welfare, and target fraud and waste in federal programs to achieve savings. In an equally terse response for the GOP, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said that while he was encouraged by the President's newfound willingness to work with Congress to eliminate...
What remains is the familiar grim stalemate at a higher level of tension. After the British and French plans take effect, U.N. forces will probably find themselves in armed camps, where they can protect themselves but not the civilian population outside. The Serbs show no sign of willingness to stop fighting and start talking. On the diplomatic track, the only effort under way is Washington's attempt to sweeten an offer Milosevic has rejected before. Even if he agrees to recognize Bosnia for now, he can always change his mind later and resume his quest for a Greater Serbia after...
...similar restrictions hold back the Serbs, who have delighted in turning much of Sarajevo into something like a shooting gallery at an amusement park. "The Serbs always shoot at us," says Colonel Alain Ferrand, commander of the 100 French soldiers who protect the Sarajevo airport, five miles from Grouzelle's barracks. "Every time we go to the runway or other exposed places, we get a few bullets. Usually they hit the ground 1 or 2 m [3 or 6 ft.] in front of us. And they love to shoot at night. God knows why." Ferrand says the morale...
Unable to talk the warring factions into ending their slaughter and unwilling to use force to stop them, the allies are sending additional troops to protect those already in Bosnia. It is a prescription for paralysis, and possibly disaster...
...attack on Tokyo's subways, Aum members continue to chant prayers and hand out flyers on the street. Prosecutors are now seeking disciplinary action against Asahara's lawyer for smuggling out a tape-recorded message from the guru. The tapeinstructed members to bury all evidence against the cultand to protect members from arrest. Taking his cue from Mafia dons the world over, Asahara said: "I will continue to keep silence. I hope everyone will continue with their training no matter what happens...