Word: bypassers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elkin (Simon & Schuster; 283 pages; $19.95). Bobbo Druff, 58, is a washed-up pol serving time as city commissioner of streets in a minor-league U.S. metropolis. His wife of 36 years is going deaf; his son Mikey, 30, still lives at home; and his health -- after a heart bypass, four instances of a collapsed lung and extensive circulatory problems in his legs -- is not robust. Understandably he concludes that the "world is getting away from me, I think...
Another problem we could not bypass was the territorial and economic disputes between Iraq and Kuwait. Once again, according to our proposals, Saddam would know ahead of time that talks with the Kuwaiti leadership about these disputes would be organized within an Arab framework -- but only after the withdrawal of Iraq's forces from the entire territory that was under Kuwait's sovereignty until...
...Roths, of course. This is a book about what it means to keep swinging. During his father's ordeal, the son undergoes quintuple bypass surgery. His biggest fear is that he will still be invalided when his father dies. But he holds on, and the recovered author is at Herman's bedside, watching as "he fought for every breath with an awesome eruption, a final display, of his lifelong obstinate tenacity...
...collecting old newspapers and recycling aluminum cans. Japanese students have mounted a campaign to eliminate disposable wooden chopsticks and replace them with reusable plastic models. Children in one Soviet town were able to persuade the sluggish local government to hasten construction of a roundabout that would allow traffic to bypass the center of town and thus reduce pollution. In Brazil the number of nongovernment environmental groups has swelled from 500 three years ago to nearly 4,000; they include many children...
...imponderables range from the nitty and literally gritty (how badly will the fine desert sand foul the gears of tanks and the breeches of rifles?) to the conceptual (could U.S. troops bypass the dug-in Iraqi forces in Kuwait with a flanking attack?). They include questions of psychology: Is the Iraqi army battle hardened from eight years of war against Iran, or battle weary? Would the troops on the front line, many of whom are thought to be ill-trained draftees who know they are cannon fodder, fight hard or give up quickly? For that matter, how battle ready...