Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tenn., a small town northeast of Nashville. The 1950s-style restaurant, complete with jukebox, offers such unlikely McFare as lasagna, pork chops and Salisbury steak. The menu includes ordinary hamburgers, but no Big Macs or Chicken McNuggets. While patrons still queue to order their food at a take-away counter, the meal comes on ceramic plates, and is brought to the table by servers sporting bowling shirts...
...Bush convinced him that a U.S. drive to oust Saddam and weaken his military might bring a host of nasty repercussions, including seething Arab resentment against the U.S. "imperialists" and their ruling Arab cohorts, a radical Shi'ite takeover of Iraq and the weakening of Iraq as a military counter to Iran and Syria. The pragmatists added a kicker -- probably wishful: just forcing Saddam out of Kuwait would humiliate him so badly that it might lead to his overthrow. Said Bush last week: "It wouldn't disappoint me if the Iraqis got up and said, 'Look, this...
...time, anyway. Most nations seemed to realize that if the superpowers were no longer going to police the world, a global Neighborhood Watch had better develop -- at least to counter this particular bogeyman. As extraordinary as the harmony of world reaction was, the circumstances that created it were equally improbable. It is not often that the world produces a dictator who so blatantly disregards the laws of civility to commit such an overt, unambiguous act of aggression against a peaceful neighbor that poses no security threat whatsoever. It is rare that a victim's fortunes are so directly tied...
...common misconception that summer research assistants seldom transcend the menial duties of an academic "go-fer," Goodarzi and others say. Summer interns are frequently portrayed as slaves to the xerox machine, pausing only to stir the professor's coffee. Interns are quick to counter, however, that they are usually assigned a full range of research tasks, often personally assisting the professor with important projects...
...force of 300,000 would be needed to counter the Iraqis, Pentagon experts estimate, and "U.S. military operations would cease everyplace else in the world" in order to move and support them. Just to get such large numbers to the war zone would take time. Although light airborne forces could arrive in a week, heavy units capable of really dealing with the Iraqis would take more than a month. "If you are going to defeat Iraq," says Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "it's a hell of a campaign...