Word: exceeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...antiwar movement truly believes that the Gulf War is simply another Vietnam--an unjust, or even unwise, conflict whose costs greatly exceed its benefits--then the way to prove it to policymakers is to send rich white boys to die in the Gulf alongside other, less privileged citizens...
...number of Americans killed will exceed tens of thousands if a ground battle occurs with Iraqi forces . . . which are trained in defensive combat to an extent that no other force in the world has reached...
Such tactics might indeed hold down allied casualties. But there is no getting around the fact that the toll of soldiers killed in a day of land fighting -- even the delayed, low-intensity mopping-up operation that some air-power advocates still foresee -- is likely to exceed by far the number of pilots lost in a month of the most ferocious bombing. Deciding whether and when to start a ground offensive inescapably turns into pondering a calculus of death...
...income Americans, Darman hopes to begin to wean them from their expensive -- and subsidized -- life-styles. Farmers who make more than $125,000 a year in outside income will be ineligible for federal commodity subsidies. The monthly Medicare premium of $31.80 will be tripled for seniors whose adjusted incomes exceed $125,000. Darman said the five new means tests, which would save $200 million next year and $3.7 billion through 1995, are a first step toward "a better focus on the poor...
...were reinforced last week when the Commerce Department reported that the economy contracted at a sharp annual rate of 2.1% in the fourth quarter of 1990. Politicians showed almost as much reluctance to finance the war by heavy borrowing, since the U.S. already faces a federal deficit that will exceed $300 billion this year -- even without the cost of combat...