Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down so that all personnel can devote a full day to sexual-harassment training. And on Capitol Hill four women recounted tales of sexual harassment to a Senate panel. Jacqueline Ortiz, an Army reservist, told of being "forcibly sodomized" by Sergeant David Martinez while serving in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. When she reported the attack to her superiors, she was ignored. Last week the Army belatedly charged Martinez with sexual assault...
...early-morning jolt -- 7.4 on the Richter scale in contrast to 7.1 for the 1989 San Francisco Bay area quake -- shook people from their beds and houses from their foundations and was felt as far away as Colorado and Washington. But it was centered in the sparsely populated Mojave Desert, some 100 miles east of Los Angeles. A second quake, with a Richter rating of 6.5, struck an even more remote region in the San Bernardino Mountains, 20 miles closer...
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...prairies were a deep lode of mother earth to be mined by the plow, and the settlers rushed in and onto the Great Plains, once called the great American desert. The Great Plains should never have been plowed, and the size of that tragedy was only fully realized decades later when the drought-dried soil was lifted by angry storms and carried as far east as the Atlantic coast...
...numbers that seem firm can be illusory, as a survey by the Times Mirror Center for The People & The Press showed last week. To explore the quirkiness of the public's mood, the center matched Operation Desert Storm hero Norman Schwarzkopf against George Bush and Bill Clinton. The retired Army general placed second, with 29%, vs. 35% for Bush and 27% for Clinton. Andrew Kohut, who ran the poll, thinks that result "underscores the difficulty of judging how much of Perot's standing is really support for Perot rather than a yearning for a nonpolitical alternative." In another experiment, Kohut...