Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...erosion of America's international political role would naturally have a negative impact on the U.S. economy, which would, in turn, provide more emotional fuel for racist groups to find domestic scapegoats, thus generating a vicious cycle that could irreparably damage and even destroy American democracy...
...dash any notion you had of cooking over a fire, or snacking on trail mix. Liquid-fuel stoves with electronic ignitions have made matches passe; contraptions like the Camp Kitchen from Coleman, the Kansas-based gear purveyor, allow any hiker to play Martha Stewart. The portable kitchen weighs only 35 lbs. and yet contains 6 ft. of counter space, a sink, stove space, storage shelves, a paper-towel rack, a set of backgammon and a set of checkers. It all fits in a suitcase-size carrier. At $199 the movable diner is one of the company's best sellers...
...conjecture being explored by some government counterterrorism specialists is that the blast was caused by a "fuel-air explosion," probably indicating that a low-grade explosive device was involved. This theory, so far a minority view, holds that an explosion would cause fuel to leak into the air and then be ignited by the slow-burning detonating material, creating what amounts to a giant gas bomb; a higher-velocity explosive like Semtex would cause severe structural damage to the plane, but the intense blast might be too short to ignite fuel vapors...
...left wing and two intact engines which have been spotted on the ocean floor. The prevailing theory is that a bomb was placed in the forward cargo compartment, located below the first-class section. The Washington Post reported Thursday that investigators are also looking into the possibility that a fuel motor in the nearly empty center fuel tank sparked the explosion. -->
...flitted between the events outside one's door and the reports of those events on television. More hard information was to be learned from TV than from the dark, but there were things that the cameras did not or could not pick up--the reek of the jet fuel burning; the twinkling helicopter lights competing with the stars; the moist, ominous air; the sight of silent, empty ambulances heading back to other quiet towns like Flanders and Manorville; or the people themselves, hunched in front of their TV sets, growing steadily more aware of their altered state...