Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's armed forces. It was an opportunity that came just in time. After a long honeymoon with the American people, the President's baffling flip-flops on taxes and a gathering recession caused his approval rating to fall to a so-so 53% by last autumn. The buildup to war followed by the breathtaking weeks of combat made Americans forget all that. Soon after Kuwait was liberated in February, Bush's popularity rocketed to an unprecedented 86%. Democrats could only gape in awe at his upward trajectory...
Four years in the making, Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography burst onto the scene after a deftly orchestrated public relations buildup. Unlike most major books, which are released to reviewers weeks or months in advance of publication, Kelley's manuscript was carefully withheld from the press. During editing, only five copies of the manuscript were printed; each was numbered and kept track of at all times. Simon & Schuster staff members even took copies home at night to guard against leaks. One special reader got the book a month in advance: cartoonist Garry Trudeau was allowed an early peek...
Last week a panel of the National Academy of Sciences issued a long-awaited report on global warming -- the theory that a buildup of carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is causing temperatures to climb, threatening crops and coastal areas that could be drowned under rising oceans if the polar ice caps melt. Though both sides could find some support for their positions in the study, its findings and recommendations could prod the go-slow faction in the White House...
Gelb added that in the process of nurturing Hussein, the administration refused to keep his military buildup in check...
Like some martial equivalent of the Reagan years, the victory in the gulf makes Americans feel better about themselves. It was splendid and necessary but also unreal -- an action-adventure that, like most movies, was divided into three chapters, with decisive turning points: 1) the Iraqi invasion and the buildup of coalition forces; 2) the onset of the air war; and 3) the ground war and its denouement. The victory came with such merciless ease that on the winners' side, the deeper levels of experience (nobility, sacrifice, endurance and so on) were not engaged. The victors now celebrate mostly their...