Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Soon, Keene says, their employers began making threats to their safety and lives, sometimes leaving them in the desert for days at a time without any food...
...soon, he might try peddling hardware. He has already rung up one sale worth perhaps $4 billion. Responding to a letter from the President to the Emir, the Kuwaitis decided to buy 236 U.S.-built Abrams tanks instead of British Challengers. Granted, the circumstances were special. After Desert Storm, perhaps no nation is more anxious to retain American goodwill than Kuwait. And few gestures would win more presidential gratitude than a contract just before the election that will preserve 5,900 jobs in the vote-rich states of Michigan and Ohio...
...Bush's plan. We worry about the dubious relationship among tax dollars, the churches running religious schools and the corporations running private ones. Furthermore, we think that public schools should be respected as social equalizers. Bush's plan gives the rich and the middle class a financial incentive to desert these crucial institutions...
Occasionally glancing out the picture window,Walsh said the only details he can recall of thetrip are sleeping for 20 hours a day mostly in apup tent, making a pitstop to go to church and"the heat of the desert...
CAPTAIN ROBERT SINGH never tired of walking in the forest with his little son Toby. It was, of course, a tamed and gentle forest, guaranteed to be free of dangerous animals, but it made an exciting contrast to the rolling sand dunes of their last environment in the Saudi desert -- and the one before that, on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. But when the Skylift Service had moved the house this time, something had gone wrong with the food-recycling system. Though the electronic menus had fail-safe backups, there had been a curious metallic taste to some...