Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wilderness of Southern Utah is one of America's most spectacular national treasures. But is is also one of our most threatened. If Congress passes pending legislation, much of this land will be opened to development, stripped for coal and bulldozed for mining. This pristine wilderness will become a desert wasteland...
...THEY HAVE SURVIVED THE WINDY PLAINS OF IOWA, the frozen tundra of New Hampshire, the sparkling sands of Arizona's diamond desert. But now they go where no Republican presidential candidates have gone before: into a contested New York State primary. And, like explorers of earlier ages treading upon virgin land, they must confront a terrifying New York political ritual: the food...
...Iraq's program for developing weapons of mass destruction and had brutally suppressed the Kurds after the Gulf War. He was also married to Saddam's favorite daughter. Then one night six months ago, he suddenly drove across the desert to Jordan, accompanied by his wife, brother and sister-in-law, who is also a daughter of Saddam's, and the couples' children. Last week, equally suddenly, they all went home...
Forbes also became a noisy promoter of building a $300 million radio transmitter in Israel's Negev Desert. Warren Rudman, a budget hawk and former chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that oversaw Forbes' agency (and a Dole supporter), praises Forbes as "full of energy," but adds that "the Negev project was just a total failure, because Democrats and Republicans alike could see that there was no need for it. But Forbes just had no hesitancy in asking for huge amounts of money it would have cost. It was fairly typical behavior for a Washington insider fighting for his project...
...days after the game, Johnson talked about his feelings. "It was like being stranded on a desert island, and you finally get home! I finally had gone home." And when he did go home to Cookie and the kids, what did three-year-old Earvin III say? "He said, 'Daddy, I watched you play!' And that's all I needed right there...