Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...affable irascibility. He gives few interviews and says he won't talk to Rolling Stone anymore because of its perfumed ads: "I don't like the way the magazine smells." He makes no apologies for comments he made in the '80s expressing support for President Reagan's arms buildup: "I say what I believe in at the time. It may not be the same in four years." Now he's an advocate of Pearl Jam's effort to boycott Ticketmaster, the ticket-distribution service, in protest against its high prices. "Even if Pearl Jam fails, it doesn't matter...
During the Gulf War buildup, an F-15 fighter feigned an attack on an F-111 warplane "without warning them," Diehl says. "The inexperienced mishap pilot, apparently thinking they were under actual attack, crashed while taking evasive action." The crash was listed as a "combat loss...
Iran has installed chemical weapons and 6,000 troops at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, Defense Secretary William Perry told reporters today. On a six-day tour of the region, Perry warned that the military buildup could be used to block the Gulf shipping lanes that are used to transport half the world's oil. He is urging Arab allies to upgrade their defenses and improve ties with the U.S. military in the face of growing military arsenals in bothIran and Iraq. Perry has warned repeatedly in recent days ofIran's military stockpile, including anti-ship and anti-aircraft...
...this era have too often favored power seekers or clever interest-group mobilizers while discouraging ordinary voters and making them cynical. This distorted top-to-bottom information cascade must give way to a next stage of technology -- one that will reverse the flow, thereby ending a half-century's buildup of lawyer-lobbyists who represented interest groups (including the media) more than they did voters...
...prologue in which a group of friends are mourning the death of Floyd Barton, a blues guitarist and singer whose career was on the verge of taking off. The action that follows is a flashback leading up to Floyd's death. But though full and strong in its buildup, the play loses its potency as it reaches its climax. Floyd's death may be plausible, even inevitable, but it becomes tangled in a confusing thicket of mysticism and subplots. Though Floyd is as charming and sympathetic a protagonist as we could want, the surprising truth is that his death...