Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trading boom in baseball cards has given us series featuring soap stars, Desert Storm heroes, rabbis, drug-sniffing dogs, fugitives and now a new 196- card set picturing missing children. What next? Broken hearts? Top 10 organ transplants...
...from their worries about the recession. And as long as Saddam maintains his bloody totalitarian rule, efforts by Bush and his campaigners to revive memories of the glorious triumph are likely to ring false to many voters. Pat Buchanan and the Democrats can claim, misleadingly but perhaps effectively, that Desert Storm won at best a hollow victory...
...Baghdad as a kind of personal army. Nor is it certain that American air power could turn the tide -- or even that it could be fully employed. The U.S. has only about 150 ground-based warplanes left in the area, less than a tenth of those that flew in Desert Storm, and some of those operate out of Incirlik in Turkey. The Turks might never let them take off. Ankara's top priority is to prevent formation of anything resembling an independent Kurdish state inside Iraq that inevitably would try to break off a piece of Turkey; Turkish troops already...
Kuwait paid the final installment of its $16.5 billion Desert Storm debt to the U.S. in December, relying partly on the country's Fund for Future Generations. Nevertheless, the Emir Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah ordered the government to write off $5 billion in consumer debts and assume responsibility for an additional $25 billion owed by commercial banks. Despite these obligations, a $5 billion reconstruction loan sought last fall was oversubscribed by a consortium of international banks...
...California condor is a prime example of what conservationists have labeled charismatic megafauna, a charmed circle of struggling species that are cute enough or distinctive enough to capture the public imagination. Among the others: the gray wolf, grizzly bear, bald eagle, desert tortoise and, of course, the northern spotted owl. Since the Endangered Species Act, which commits the government to protecting all life forms from extinction, became law in 1973, this select group of animals has received an inordinate share of funding...