1.   Although he came into office pledging to conduct a new kind of preventive diplomacy, there is still a day-to-day approach to decision-making.

2.   But more than weapons, Lu said, Taiwan needs the United States to engage in preventive diplomacy.

3.   David Phillips, a professor of preventive diplomacy at Columbia, said that he believed Clinton simply had seen the situation for what it was, a moral outrage.

4.   Diplomats will be amused to discover they practice preventive diplomacy every day.

5.   For its part, the Clinton administration has not overtaxed the art of preventive diplomacy in dealing with Carter.

6.   Gore talks about preventive diplomacy but can be equally vague.

7.   It involves preventive diplomacy.

8.   Preventive diplomacy could have promised a seat the next time around for Sweden or Austria if it declined to run this year.

9.   Policymakers have turned to preventive diplomacy believing it may provide an inexpensive, relatively riskless alternative to the proliferation of deadly post-Cold War conflicts.

10.   Preventive diplomacy and conflict prevention do not lessen the difficulty of choices for leaders, nor do they really lessen costs.