Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cities with a population of more than 50,000. FEMA's plan assumes that the Soviets will give us at least a week's notice before they start shooting: Americans are supposed to begin evacuating their cities as soon as our intelligence reports that Soviets have begun to desert their urban areas...
...Saudis, though, seem determined to make the production cut work. Petroleum Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani threatened that the desert kingdom would further reduce output in the months ahead if necessary to keep the market tight. He also issued thinly veiled warnings to other OPEC producers not to cheat on the Vienna agreement because doing so would avail them nothing...
...mission was another NASA television spectacular, and Lousma and Fullerton shone as showmen. As Fullerton pointed his TV camera at such scenes as Arizona's Painted Desert and the snowcapped Rockies during one pass over the U.S., Lousma exulted, "This good old America, from sea to shining sea in just twelve minutes. It really is America the beautiful...
Symbolized by the long column of American infantrymen marching through the desert, the U.S. presence is expected to bolster the latest peace-keeping effort. In addition to providing a total of 1,100 troops, Washington is picking up 60% of the $225 million cost of the first year of the mission. The U.S. force should also reassure the Israelis, who strongly pressed for it. They still recall that an earlier peace-keeping group that did not include Americans was expelled by Egypt's late President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1967, helping to set the stage for the Arab-Israeli...
...inconceivable. As the sun sets over the Great Barrier Reef and David Attenborough strolls into a fadeout contemplating some prehistoric epiphany, none other than Mr. Whipple may be nipping at his desert boots, fingers flexing around a roll of Charmin. Hard pressed on all sides-especially from Washington-PBS will try running commercials to keep solvent and keep the flag flying...