Word: backups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American forces after the now expected U.S. invasion of Haiti. He added that assembling those troops shouldn't delay American military action, which the Pentagon said could take place within a week to a month. Meanwhile, about 160 Caribbean troops--the first to agree to serve as an invasion backup force--arrived in Puerto Rico for two weeks of training with hundreds of U.S. Army Special Forces troops. The 17 countries, some announced previously, are: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, the Bahama Islands, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Dominica, Guyana, Israel, Jamaica, The Netherlands, Panama, St. Vincent, Trinidad and the United...
...threat of a filibuster, calling the bill floated by Sen. George Mitchell (D-Maine) "anathema to everything I believe is right for America." This prompted Hillary Rodham Clinton to call Gramm a political opportunist "ranting and raving about socialized medicine." The bill calls for employer mandates as a backup measure and aims to cover 95 percent of the population. No vote is expected before next Wednesday...
Conspicuously absent from the jacket is bassist Bill Wyman's replacement, Darryl Jones. He seems relegated to the same fold as the usual round of backup vocalists, keyboardists and horn players. It is true that bass was never the glamor solo position in this particular band. The jacket's centerfold portrays a scene of model skeletons that's a direct rip-off from the Black Crowes' second album, "Southern Harmony...
That's fortunate, because Harvard doesn't really have a backup plan if some major disaster occurs--29 Garden St. is not being kept as a safety net. If for some reason members of the Class of 1998 or 1999 are greeted with tents rather than dorm rooms, Harvard would probably draw national ridicule. Harvard has to get this summer's renovations done, as well as those slated for next summer--Massachusetts, Straus and Wigglesworth Halls...
...SWAT team scrambled and moved out to O.J.'s Brentwood mansion in unmarked cars. They split into a sniper team with scopes, a negotiating team and a larger backup team that fanned out through the bushes and trees around the property, armed with stun grenades and automatic rifles. When Cowling drove up into the driveway, they could see O.J. in the backseat, holding a blue steel revolver pointed up against his own chin...