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Word: airs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stad says that at the end of the week, when Gore walked off Air Force II, he gave Stad and the other students a high five and a thank...

Author: By Mary C. Cardinale, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Canning Cancun: Students Spend Spring Break Hard at Work | 4/9/1999 | See Source »

...could Washington be so naive that you could win such a thing with an air strike? Impossible! Why did Clinton declare on TV that we would not send in ground troops? Of course we should go in, we are much too late," said Ruud Lubbers, a former prime minister of the Netherlands...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kosovo Panelists Encourage NATO to Use Ground Forcew | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

Steven Van Evera, a professor of political science at MIT, said that air campaigns were historically ineffective without accompanying ground forces to prevent enemy troops from scattering...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kosovo Panelists Encourage NATO to Use Ground Forcew | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...record is stunningly clear. Air forces cannot get at an opponent on the ground unless accompanying troops force [the opponent] to concentrate in a particular area," Van Evera said...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kosovo Panelists Encourage NATO to Use Ground Forcew | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...assume that if we had done one thing, everything would have been OK. During the buildup of a NATO ground force, what would Serbs have done given [the atrocities they committed] during the air attack," Nash said...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kosovo Panelists Encourage NATO to Use Ground Forcew | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

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