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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush were to expand his game plan to include Hussein's downfall after the release of Kuwait, some experts say this would only aggravate tensions between the U.S. and Arab nations. It would further damage an American reputation among Arabs already suspicious of the war's motivations, they...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Scholars Consider A Post-War Era | 1/31/1991 | See Source »

...Defense Department has seized upon the gulf crisis as an excuse to expand the 1,000-sq.-mi. Fort Irwin, a high-tech desert-training facility in Southern California, by some 390 sq. mi. Environmentalists pledge to stall any such action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Footnotes From the Front: An up-to-the-minute briefing on the Persian Gulf crisis | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...your community. It's something you've probably been meaning to do anyway. But if your number should come up, it would provide an emotional bridge to the next job. You'd already be part of an organization doing valuable work; it's likely you'd be able to expand those efforts from one night a week to several. For the few months it would take you to land another spot, you'd have plenty to feel busy and productive about -- because you'd be busy and productive -- and you'd have something to say you were doing when people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Angles Do Yourself a Favor! | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...Cigar Doesn't anyone return Fidel Castro's phone calls these days? The aging dictator saw most of his communist soul mates get tossed onto the dustheap of history, and the cash-strapped Soviets may be close to ending their $5 billion annual subsidy. Castro's efforts to expand tourism won't make up the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers of 1990 | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

College is supposed to be a place where you investigate new ideas and later form your own theories about life but sometimes I wonder. How can we expand our knowledge, become the culturally literate people we're supposed to be if we are unwilling to hear a new perspective? Are we so afraid of being taken out of the confines of our own narrow existences that we must unfairly silence and delegitimize the works of talented writers...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: It's Not Just Ethnic Studies | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

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