Word: containment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said the magazine will likely contain eight to 10 articles. "As more people hear about it, we can increase its size," Pan said...
...effective national energy plan must contain two strands: increased domestic energy production and more efficient consumption. The President is ^ tugging at the production strand. Congress appears to be groping toward the other. The question is whether they can weave them together and give the country the leadership it urgently needs on this vital issue...
Workers last week began placing miles of plastic booms around the desalination facilities. Because petroleum generally floats on water, such booms, which extend up to 1 m (3 ft.) below the surface, can contain a slick. The next step is to put skimming equipment inside the booms and begin scooping up the oil, either with vacuuming devices or by drawing oil-absorbent plastic ropes through it and wringing them out. Some of the crude can be salvaged as kerosene...
...Bolster a "strategic asset." Israel was a key component of America's fervent struggle to contain Communism during the Cold War. Rather than station American troops in the Middle East as it did in Western Europe and the Far East, the U.S. relied on Israel's quick-to-mobilize national army to keep the Evil Empire's influence out of the region...
...workers throw away 20 garbage bags of cups every day. "I'm glad that the dining hall is taking a leadership position and setting an example for the entire Harvard community," he said, adding that the EAC is considering setting up recycling bins for styrofoam cups that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons