Word: blanketed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when I got there." Insardi whipped off his shirt, swaddled the baby in it and rode with the child to the hospital. His own first child, a girl, was born four weeks ago. His strange encounter with the abandoned infant left him so shaken that he brought a receiving blanket knitted by his mother to the hospital...
...that size, making it smaller than the 1979-80 Gulf of Mexico spill at the offshore drilling rig known as Ixtoc I. Similarly, Carl Sagan's well-publicized prediction that smoke from the oil fires could rise 5 to 10 km (3 to 6 miles) to the stratosphere and blanket the globe has not yet come to pass. So far, the smoke clouds are hugging the ground, drifting in the prevailing westerlies only as far as Pakistan...
Pentagon officials claimed on Saturday that Saddam's forces had set fire to at least 200 oil wells -- which along with about 100 wells that were sabotaged earlier account for 25% of all such facilities in the country. Pilots returning from bombing missions reported that a blanket of thick smoke was covering all of the country south of Kuwait City, reaching from the gulf on the east to the Saudi border on the west...
...best way to blanket an area with toxins is by flying overhead and either spraying them crop-duster style or dropping them in bombs. These are the means by which Saddam gassed his own Kurdish minority in 1988. But any plane that Saddam would send up against the allies would probably get shot down in short order. Thus, the Iraqis are more likely to deliver their noxious poisons using artillery shells, missiles and rockets. It would take a terrific barrage of any of these to soak enemy troops thoroughly, and once the blasting started, allied bombers would furiously attack...
...leading lawmakers want to restrict depositors to a total of $100,000 in federal insurance per bank; in the S&L bailout, some big customers are being repaid the full $100,000 for each of several accounts in a single institution. Yet any move to cut back this blanket coverage could lead to the type of bank panics that the FDIC sought to avert in New England. "You only exacerbate the problem of runs when you limit insurance," says Lawrence White, a New York University economist who advocates bailing out all depositors at failed banks in the name of fairness...