Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fired by grandiose projects--the more seemingly impossible the better. His motto, endlessly repeated, was "We'll build anything for anybody, no matter what the location, type or size." He and his company built pipelines and power plants in the forbidding reaches of the Canadian Rockies, across the Arabian desert and through South American jungles, as well as in daunting places like downtown Boston, where the Central Artery project unfolds today. His portfolio even includes an entire city (Jubail, Saudi Arabia). Bechtel built in 140 countries and on six continents. It has been said, hyperbolically perhaps, that Bechtel engineers changed...
...hero's father (Gary Cole) promises him a Porsche (!) if he makes it home by 6 p.m. on Christmas Day. This is a prospect Jake finds too tempting to pass up. Jake's business, however, botches one too many assignments, and some unhappy customers toss him into the desert after supergluing a Santa suit to his body (no, this doesn't make more sense when you see it). Without the money for a bus ticket, Jake has to rely on his smooth-talking savvy to mooch enough rides to get him across the country in two days. In the meantime...
...recall that one evening while we were out hunting, I sat down with John to watch the desert sunset. John was 14 and had stopped attending school the year before. I asked him why. He said he didn't need it. And as I looked into the sunset over the gnarled gum trees, I tried desperately to formulate a response. I couldn't. I couldn't disagree with...
...nascent anti-Saddam revolution. Inside these enclaves, Chalabi will build a guerrilla force financed by "liberated" Iraqi oil. One day, under the protection of U.S. warplanes, 10,000 fighters will march on Baghdad, slicing away pieces of Saddam's territory as their offensives persuade demoralized Iraqi army units to desert. When civilians witness the burgeoning success of the insurgents, the brittle walls surrounding the dictator's regime will collapse amid a general uprising, and Saddam will be overthrown...
When John Glenn and the other Mercury astronauts began their probing of space, the whole world went nuts over how brave and daring these men were. Everyone overlooked the brave and daring pilots who were flying and dying in rocket planes in America's deserts. Now once again the media are telling the great space story, while the memories of the true rocket- and manned-flight pioneers fade away like desert shadows. CHARLES A. STORIE Sachsenheim, Germany...