Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three all-news cable outfits, which have less ad revenue to worry about losing anyway. Anyone who wants continuous coverage will be turning to them. Great stories often change news-viewing habits: "Nightline" was born amid the Iran hostage crisis, and CNN came of age with its coverage of Desert Storm. "Impeachment gives each of the cable networks the opportunity to establish the credibility of their reporting and analysis," says Tynan. "And so the great TV story of impeachment will be to see how each of those networks did." And how many of those viewers stick...
...start of it was chillingly familiar: the wail of sirens, the staccato blasts of antiaircraft fire, the tracers lighting up the night sky over Baghdad. Then came the crash of missiles in the distance, sending up an orange glow along the horizon. On just the first night of Operation Desert Fox, U.S. ships and bombers pounded Iraq with 280 American cruise missiles--almost as many as hit the country during the entire Gulf War in 1991. Night after night, waves of warplanes, including B-52s, F-14s, F-18s and British Tornadoes, joined in the attack. Even...
When the darkness falls in Baghdad, you sit there looking out at the starry desert sky and you wonder, When will the gently twinkling lights be snuffed out by a sudden explosion of fire? When will the neon lines of tracers redraw the contours of the landscape in unthinkable ways? Will the trees and houses and mosques and suspect sites spreading peacefully toward the horizon be nothing but dust and rubble tomorrow? Will people...
...only fools are not afraid when the warning siren sounds. Families huddle in houses, unable to close their eyes as they await the concussive smack of a bomb. Unlike Operation Desert Storm, when the country was pounded mercilessly for 38 days, Operation Desert Fox has come in tense fits and starts through the long nights...
...should have given more than just a mention to engineer Stephen Bechtel's monumental achievement in creating the entire municipality of Jubail, Saudi Arabia. It cannot have been easy to construct on the edge of the desert out of thin air. KHURRAM AHMED TAJI Islamabad, Pakistan...