Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nature as "the Powers," and already overdone Star Wars metaphor. Of course frivolous mankind gets ripped up in its ignorance as the power plant blows up, killing many of its staunchest supporters (who were working at he plant) and leaving a symbolic power plant itself. The citizens' unquestioning radioactive cloud over the helpless town...
...court hearings are set for early next month) may be the easy part. Microsoft's long-term problem is the capital's growing perception that the company is bullying competitors and partners alike, abusing the leverage its Windows monopoly gives over a critical industry. It's a mushrooming p.r. cloud that threatens to damage Microsoft both explicitly (if Justice decides to monkey-wrench Gates' Windows 98 plans) and implicitly, by hampering his ability to influence future legislation on such crucial Infobahn issues as copyright protection and encryption...
...files exist, Hersh didn't get them. Don't look here either for a nuanced portrait of Kennedy's presidency. This isn't the kind of book that has much to say about the space program or the Alliance for Progress. And if the Kennedy name already has a cloud over it, Hersh's book comes to market the same way. Before publication he had to remove what would have been its most titillating assertion--that the President signed a contract agreeing to pay Marilyn Monroe $600,000 in hush money to keep quiet about their alleged (but much, much...
MISSILE SYSTEMS Most of Iraq's long-range missiles have been scrapped, but the lies and deception that cloud biological and chemical weapons are at work here too. Iraq is trying to rebuild its ballistic missile program through a network of front companies that buy materials and technology in Europe and Russia. In a report last month, the U.N. Special Commission found that Iraq "continued to conceal documents describing its missile propellants," and the evidence indicated that "it might have destroyed less than a tenth of what it claimed." And, of course, there are no restrictions on Iraq's development...
...there is nothing unusual about an El Nino. It is a perfectly normal cycle of Pacific waters' warming every two to seven years, altering jet-stream flows and cloud formation. This changes the weather over most of the globe in fairly predictable, entirely natural ways. It alternates with the La Nina cycle, which cools the waters and creates mostly contrary effects. It's been going on, as far as we can tell, for millennia...