Americans Protest NATO'S War in Yugoslavia -- June 5, 1999
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From: Giovanni Pauta
Date: 2/28/01
Time: 3:43:53 PM
Remote Name: 130.68.53.134
just-in-time-technologies- Use by Greenspan in his monetary policy tesimony. It means technology that has enabled firms to adjust production levels.
High tech manufacturing- also used by Greenspan- meaning the capacity in the industries have advance to a great level.
Brouhaha- used in explaining what was generated by former President Clinton's pardons
Newsworthiness- Clinton said that journalists faced the callenge of balancing public service with profit and newsworthiness with entertainment.
Gag orders- in the hand out of Bush: The great communicator-"If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency room care, we're going to have gag orders"
Foreign-handed- also in the article of Bush-"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.
Level commiserate- another term in the Bush article-"I want to have a balistic defense system so that we can make the world peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace."
Steadfastly-used by Clinton when trying to avoid question at the CSFB conference on the allegations of Pardon. "Clinton later steadfastly deflected questions on his controversly."
Buffer zone-used by General George Robertson in the article of Powell Sees U.S. troops in Balkans as Long as Needed. "Diminution of the buffer zone is conditional on the Serbian government implementing promised confidence-building measures in the area."
Bedrock of Cold War-In the article of Powell- "Russia has argued that a U.S. nuclear umbrella would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, the bedrock of Cold War arms control."