Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kabul today, and no city has suffered more destruction in the '90s than the capital of Afghanistan. Along with the demise of the cold war, the departure of the Soviets in 1989 ended much of the interest of the U.S. and other outsiders. Shortly afterward, vicious, sustained civil war broke out. In the years since, five different armies have fought in Kabul's streets, battling from house to house, killing 45,000 in one six-month period. Jahannam, says the Koran, is a hellish place of "harrowing torment" where people are kept in "heavy fetters and a blazing fire." This...
...between 1961 and 1968. Two hundred of the commandos who are now living in the U.S. have filed a suit asking that all commandos still alive be paid $2,000 for every year they served in prison--an estimated total of $11 million. Two weeks ago, the case broke open when a federal claims court forced the CIA and the Pentagon to declassify secret payroll rosters and memos. The documents show that the U.S. government had declared the commandos dead even though it knew many were still alive. The money saved by withholding the benefits was used for other operations...
...confidence then underscores the dilemmas that now plague us in the aftermath of the Cold War. The Federal government is broke and under attack by its own citizens. Universities and colleges are more strapped for funds than ever before. And many industries are turning away from research investments...
Former Lampoon Ibis Aaron P. Niehas '96 said he commended the tenacity of the burglars who, he said, broke in two nights...
...interrogation, lie-detector tests and harassment at their homes and jobs. In one instance, a 17-year-old female member of the Rev. Algie Jarrett's Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Bolivar, Tennessee, was taken out of a classroom by an FBI agent and questioned so roughly that she broke down in tears. Says Jarrett: "He tried to make her say something that wasn't true...