Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraq. He personally devised a war-fighting strategy that resulted in the slaughter of large numbers of Iraqi soldiers while inflicting only a handful of casualties on coalition forces. He lost billions of dollars' worth of military hardware, transforming the world's fourth largest army into a military dwarf -- all in a mere six weeks. With a debt of more than $70 billion, the country will be destitute for years to come...
...that the guns have fallen silent, the pounding of jackhammers will soon replace the din of war. At $200 billion or more over the next 10 years, the price of rebuilding ravaged Kuwait seems certain to dwarf the $50 billion or so that it took to liberate the oil-rich country. With that much money at stake, companies around the world began battles of their own long before the shooting war ended, fighting over contracts for everything from hospitals to refineries in one of history's largest reconstruction jobs. "This provides an almost unlimited backlog of good, profitable work," says...
...other hand, sharks, which evolved before the dinosaurs some 350 million years ago, are of enormous scientific interest and play a vital role in ocean ecology. Ranging from the 0.1-m (6-in.) Caribbean dwarf dog shark to the 18-m (60-ft.) whale shark -- the world's biggest fish -- they boast keen intelligence and some of the sharpest senses in the ocean. Many of the 350 species are capable of hearing a wriggling fish up to a mile away, and most can smell the merest trace of blood in the ocean. The shark's eyes work like night-vision...
King Charles I of England had several court painters, not all equally lucky. Anthony van Dyck was the luckiest of all. But how could one envy, say, Richard Gibson? He was not only a miniaturist but a dwarf who at a court banquet had to skip from a pie and walk the length of the table bearing portraits of the King and Queen he had copied after Van Dyck on playing cards. It cannot have been fun to be this small, if distinct, talent, awaiting his cue in a dark pastry coffin. But to be Van Dyck himself? A different...
...thumbnail index of failure, consider the number of people left out in the cold. Despite per capita medical expenditures that dwarf those of socialized systems, 37 million Americans have no health insurance at all. For the uninsured and the underinsured -- who amount to 28% of the population -- a diagnostic work-up can mean a missed car payment; a child's sore throat, an empty dinner table...