Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American death toll since the war began stands at 26, including 14 non-combat deaths...
...certain names leaped to the eye and touched the heart. Irvin W. Prosser Jr., Zygmunt Kowalewski, Sherl K. Bonnett. Strangers all, so there were no images of them as soldiers or as high school classmates. Instead the vision came of proud fathers, perhaps survivors of World War II combat, holding up their squawking boy babies and announcing to the world, "He'll have my name, Irvin." "I'll call him Zygmunt." "I'll name him Sherl after his grandfather. He'll have a good life, a long life, a life of peace...
...conflict could add up more swiftly than any other war in American history. By one estimate, the price tag would be as much as $28 billion for a one-month campaign and $86 billion for a six-month siege of Saddam Hussein's forces. Experts say the high-tech combat already costs $500 million a day and may reach $1 billion if heavy fighting breaks out on the ground. At the height of the Vietnam War, which employed less sophisticated weaponry, U.S. military expenditures came to about $230 million a day in 1991 dollars...
...economy contracted at a sharp annual rate of 2.1% in the fourth quarter of 1990. Politicians showed almost as much reluctance to finance the war by heavy borrowing, since the U.S. already faces a federal deficit that will exceed $300 billion this year -- even without the cost of combat...
...military scrutiny is not only slowing the flow of information; it is also making it difficult for the public to assess the war. Forcing reporters into supervised pools, for example, reduces the chance that candid opinions or negative news about the war will be reported. "If combat boots are wearing out, as they did in Vietnam, or weapons are not working, somebody has to be there to report it," says ABC correspondent Morton Dean. "If we're not there, who is going...