Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Operation Desert Fox", as the Pentagon dubbed the assault, was intended to last up to four days and involved American and British aircraft and U.S. warships. The Pentagon announced that extra aircraft and ground troops were being sent to the area...
...British Prime Minister Tony Blair, addressing his nation last night, said there was "no realistic alternative to military force.... We act because we must...
...there's another side to Sacajawea's story. Without her, Lewis and Clark might never have survived their journey and thus might never have been able to map the terrain-mappings which enabled American fur-trading companies to compete with their British counterparts. Sacajawea may have been proactive in playing a key role in the expedition, but she was still a captive...
...first step for U.S. and British officials is to figure out if the Libyan gesture is genuine. "One would assume that Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi approves," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell, "but sometimes he plays one part of his government against the other." Even if Ghaddafi does approve, lots of procedural questions must still be answered, including where the suspects would be jailed, if convicted. And the biggest hurdle remains: "In the past there have been informed reports that Ghaddafi wanted guarantees that the trial would not implicate any higher-ups," says Dowell. Resolving that issue could easily take...
...your idea of a typical Internet junkie is a teenage male with Coke-bottle glasses and a pocket protector who speaks Klingon, guess again. A study presented to the British Psychological Society Tuesday claims that the new archetype of the hard-core user is much older -- and a woman. According to Dr. Helen Petrie, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, roughly equal numbers of men and women from among the 445 individuals surveyed identified themselves as addicts, but women "seemed to be more addicted to the Net than men were. They showed more positive feelings about using...