Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stuffy medical journals breaks the embargo on one of their articles, you know they're onto something really unusual. And so on Wednesday, The New England Journal of Medicine broke the news that a widely available prescription drug has been found to drastically reduce deaths at the hands of America's number one killer - heart disease. In a rush to make the findings available to doctors, the journal preempted a report scheduled to run in January by posting the findings on its web site. The report, based on a large-scale study by Canadian researchers, says the blood pressure-lowering...
...Today burst onto newsstands in early 1982, scores of skeptics said there would never be a sustained market for a daily newspaper with no regional focus. Those nonbelievers are eating their words Wednesday with the news that USA Today now boasts the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in America, edging out longtime leader The Wall Street Journal. For many newspaper purists it was a sad day, as the flashy newcomer that first incorporated high-tech graphics and eye-popping front-page color knocked off a sophisticated gray patriarch of in-depth analytical journalism...
Rubin also fielded questions about America's mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Kosovo and a supposed chemical weapons factory in Khartoum...
...Pentagon report released last week has some in Washington claiming that America - supposedly the world's last remaining superpower - could no longer withstand two regional wars at once. It's been at least seven years since the Army has ranked one of its 10 divisions as C-4, or unfit to serve in war, but this year two divisions received that ranking, while, for the first time in recent memory, no division received the highest ranking. Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) blamed the Army's failing grades on "insufficient funding and foreign policy that has committed military personnel to areas...
...military's role after the Cold War has largely shifted from protecting America from a nuclear-equipped superpower to maintaining stability in the region that superpower once dominated, the Pentagon's budget has been slashed by a third, while American troops have been increasingly devoted to peacekeeping efforts. This trend has many inside the Beltway, mostly Republicans, arguing that a powerful military has symbolic importance for America's diplomatic and economic legitimacy, as well as for world peace. But a New York Times/CBS News poll released Wednesday showed that only 2 percent of American voters considered defense the "single most...