Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where they can bedevil sufferers seeking relief aboard a cruise ship. Other places once considered havens because of less airborne pollen -- Tucson and Phoenix, for example -- are no longer ideal. Immigrants from other regions have brought their lawns, bushes and mulberry trees with them, making both the desert and pollen counts bloom...
...stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country...
Arafat's two intimations of mortality -- the plane crash in the Libyan desert last April and the surgery necessitated by bruising suffered in that mishap -- come at a time of unprecedented discontent with his 23-year leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The chairman, his detractors say, has become too autocratic, too out of touch, too unresponsive to a changing world scene. "He's become the Palestinian Leonid Brezhnev," complains a political scientist at the West Bank's An-Najah University...
...that even the proposed national-defense site at Grand Forks would violate the ABM treaty. And that, says Federation of American Scientists space policy director John Pike, is what all the urgency is really about. "They're trying to get rid of the ABM treaty before the magic of Desert Storm fades," observes Pike. "They'll work out the bugs later. But it's a very expensive form of diplomacy...
...from, say, New Hampshire just to bring geographical balance to the ticket. He'd rather draft a can-do hero. Insiders say Colin Powell has been on his short list. But Perot's greatest ticket-building efforts so far, according to one report, have been spent trying to woo Desert Storm commander NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF. Frustrated voters would be likely to cheer Stormin' Norman as just the sort of guy who could help get things done in Washington. But Schwarzkopf, who reportedly has turned down Perot at least twice, regards the * Texan with dismay as a loose cannon. Besides...