Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...regale in details about the BFD's stick work, their heroic rescues of man and animal. Walking down Newbury Street on a cold Friday night, we follow the screams of Ladder 15 and Engine 33 as they investigate smoke from a building on Comm...
Back then, the Pentagon was confronting some hard choices. After 14 years of shrinking defense outlays, it faced a $270 billion annual budget that would just keep pace with inflation. The military would have to kill some costly cold war-era weapons programs, slash its 1.4 million-man fighting force or undercut the readiness of U.S. troops to fight. But the tacit alliance last week of President, Pentagon and lawmakers averts any major, post-cold war restructuring of the U.S. military. And postponing that day of reckoning will be expensive for taxpayers...
...generals this week will insist to Congress that they must be funded well enough to fight and win two Gulf War-size conflicts at once. They will point out (surprisingly, one might think, with spending still near cold war levels) that the number of warriors in U.S. fighting forces--Army maneuver battalions, Navy ships and Air Force planes--has dropped nearly half over the past decade. And some surviving units, according to audits earlier this year, are "ghost squads," without a single soldier assigned to them...
LINDA TRIPP Discovers the Planet Starr is a cold one, as Ken investigates her. Also learns Monica--surprise--hates...
...bombing of hundreds of villages across Kosovo has forced close to 150,000 Kosovo Albanians to abandon what is left of their homes and run for their lives. Most of these displaced refugees are now living out in the open, in a very rugged mountainous territory. The bitter cold of the Balkan fall and winter will certainly add to their suffering. Most likely many of them will die, unless immediate action is taken...