Word: strife
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zeroes' worth of time in our base-10 system), something must be about to happen. The only question is, what? When the clock strikes and the ball drops, will everything explode in a sequel to the Big Bang? Probably not. Will the world start afresh, free of war and strife and instead filled with peace and tranquility? It sure would be nice, but I doubt...
...Venona traffic validates the "even paranoids have enemies" school. Although Venona might have saved America a lot of internal strife had it been released years ago, it demonstrates beyond argument that the Soviet penetration into American life, government, science and industry during the '30s and '40s was deep, thorough and hostile. Venona shows that the American Communist Party was elaborately involved in the spying (though of course only a small minority of party members were actual spies). To fake the Venona traffic would have required a conspiracy involving thousands, working together over many years. Furthermore, the decrypted messages are often...
...fact, for the Chinese government, 1999 is a year that has to be handled with circumspection. On the one hand, many social challenges--rising unemployment and criminality, ethnic strife--need to be managed. On the other hand, this year marks the 10th anniversary of the June 4 episode in Tiananmen and the 50th anniniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. If anything goes wrong, China's hard-won stability may be upset. Although the Chinese government has insisted on the political settlement of the Kosovo issue and opposed military intervention, it has provided Yugoslavia with only moral support...
...setting in. Washington and NATO insist their bombing crescendo is slowly but perceptibly sapping Slobodan Milosevic's power and will to fight. Their spokesmen point daily to encouraging signs: last week it was word of soldiers' desertions and scattered antiwar protests inside Yugoslavia. Allied military briefers called the strife the most interesting battle damage they have seen in weeks. Belgrade, spared bombing for days in the wake of the mistaken attack on Beijing's mission, is once again blackened by flames from allied fire...
...anarchic war of all against all. The war is played out at the Xerox machines of Lamont (The Spring 1997, Vol II, never seen it, wink, wink!), the sparse printing facilities in house computer labs (I brought that paper from my own room, damm it,) and in study group strife (if he doesn't send out his reading summaries over e-mail by midnight, tonight, I am going to send out my assailants...