Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier. Bob Dole and other conservative hawks have long made it clear that they do not consider the Balkans worth the bones of a single American ground soldier. Yet they seem quite prepared to sacrifice NATO on the altar of Bosnia. Destroy NATO for what? Certainly not to save Bosnia. That they admit is beyond doing. No: for the simple satisfaction of pretending to save Bosnia; for the warm, smug feeling that comes from lifting a finger too little and too late in a lost cause...
...talks on constructing diesel submarines -- worth $350 million each -- for Egypt and other countries. And Rockwell International Corp. has begun seeking foreign buyers for its $80 million-a-copy AC-130 gunship, a specially modified cargo plane that puts a 105-mm howitzer into the sky, where it can destroy distant targets with devastating precision...
...utterly isolated from the outside world. Now her only companion, her mother, has died, and Nell is a rich woman -- but still barely a girl. She speaks her own dialect, recoiling from the doctor (Liam Neeson) and the psychologist (Natasha Richardson) who would help her, use her, perhaps destroy her, and who will be forever touched by her innocent sorcery...
...elite legal establishment self consciously threw itself into debate, knowing it would set the tone for affirmative action disputes throughout the country. Battles over teaching methodology and affirmative action developed into a broader struggle between conservatives and liberals. The ripples from that debate spread throughout the community, threatening to destroy the school...
...destroy a tradition is sometimes necessary, but in this case completely unwarranted. To claim that twine and cotton tied through the windows of the Hall would damage the structure seems ludicrous: if the building is that fragile, how can is possibly be safe to live in? These bricks have stood the test of time, as is proved by the initials scratched in them from the last century...