Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CHEAP HOTEL USUALLY REQUIRES payment in advance. But relations between major defense contractors and the Air Force are thought to be a cut above that. Not always, according to a report from the acting Pentagon inspector general, which recommends disciplinary measures against a cluster of Air Force generals and civilian procurement specialists. The report accuses several Pentagon officials of advancing McDonnell Douglas Corp. $500 million in 1990 to see the aerospace giant through troubles associated with the C-17 military transport plane. The report urges disciplinary action for three generals and two civilians alleged to be involved in the scandal...
...swagger of a 15-year-old member of the Neighborhood Crips gang, whose street name was Insane. Among older kids, Kevin had noticed already, it was the "gangstas" who always had money, guns, girls, the wary enmity of cops and the fearful respect of "chumps," or civilian noncombatants...
...distribution - of food and supplies will be centered. From secure bases in those towns, military patrols and relief workers will fan out to feed the starving in the southern Somalian countryside. On the road to one of the centers, Bardera, a land mine caused the first American casualties: a civilian Army employee was killed, and three State Department security personnel were wounded...
THIS WAS A SPECIAL ELECTION FOR KOREANS, ONE that may well mark the completion of a long march from dictatorship to democracy. By electing former dissident Kim Young Sam, 65, as President, they have put into the Blue House, Korea's presidential residence, the first civilian in more than 30 years...
...armored personnel carriers supplied by the United Nations Protection Force, we make our way from the besieged to the besiegers. We pass through the lines, through checkpoints and no-man's-lands, to the headquarters of Radovan Karadzic, the Serb nationalist chieftain. Karadzic is a poet and, in civilian life, bizarrely enough, a psychiatrist. A sleek, fattish man with an expensive double-breasted suit, bushy eyebrows and flamboyantly styled long hair. I try to conjure up a psychiatric session with this healer. I see certain Hippocratic problems with a head doctor who would lead his patients not out of murderous...