Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Larry Kay will never forget the night of the white cloud. On Jan. 20, 1991, three days after the Gulf War had started, Kay was dozing in an armchair at his construction battalion's camp in Saudi Arabia, more than 100 miles from the Kuwaiti border. At 3 a.m. an exploding Scud missile jolted him awake. Before Kay had time to clamp on his gas mask, the acrid smell of ammonia assaulted his lungs, and he watched a whitish gray cloud drift over the camp. Says he: "Right after that, people started getting sick...
...more than 500,000 Mexican workers. Not only has the shifting of the facilities to Mexico cost some Americans their jobs, but lax environmental standards and poorly enforced regulations have turned large stretches of the 2,000-mile border into toxic cesspools. Maquiladoras are blamed for the noxious brown cloud that often overhangs El Paso, Juarez and other cities, as well as for the foul wastes that flow into the Rio Grande...
CORRESPONDENTS: Joelle Attinger (Chief), Paul A. Witteman (Deputy), Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration); Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editors: Stanley W. Cloud, Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White
Harvard plays St. Cloud State University today at 10 a.m. in the second round for a berth in tomorrow's championship game...
Today's opponent, the St. Cloud Huskies, finished fourth in the B Division of the Minnesota Women's Hockey Association (MWHA) last year with a 12-5-3 regular season record and a 1-2 playoff mark...