Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Soon, Tom is drawn into the amateur boxing world by a sleazy Fagintype played by Robert Loggia and a money-grubbing ex-fighter turned promoter (Brian Dennehy). Men like Tom are treated as cannon-fodders to fuel their lucrative gambling empire...
Brown, the turtlenecked Pied Piper for the young and the restless, has few short-term worries. His 800-number fund raising brings in enough cash to fuel his no-frills caravan, his now modulated debate style attracts anti- Establishment votes, and he knows the race ends on June 2 on his home turf of California. In his inimitable way, Brown may have found the perfect low- overhead formula, not for the nomination, but to endure as the last challenger to the presumptive nominee...
...Iraq, the rubble is coming to life. Almost 2,000 Kurdish villages that Saddam Hussein's forces systematically dynamited and bulldozed are inhabited again. Tents and lean-tos dot the snowy slopes, shattered walls support makeshift plastic roofs, and open-air bazaars are conducting a brisk business in food, fuel and clothing. Many of the villages' new residents are doing their best to rebuild amid desperate hardship and the harshest winter in 40 years...
...tanks and artillery behind minefields and fortifications along the southern edge of Kurdistan, carefully including all of Iraq's major oil fields. Soldiers have set up checkpoints on the roads, and while they allow local traffic in and out, they confiscate all but the smallest quantities of food and fuel. At the town of Kifri, 96 miles north of Baghdad, in outposts separated by a tense 500 yards., Iraqi troops confront bearded peshmerga guerrillas in balloon trousers and tightly wrapped turbans. "We have been suffering from two blockades," says Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan...
...Think of the water in this glass as the fossil fuel in the world," he says. "We drink deeply of this supply," he adds, taking another...