Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: It probably won't be a Black Monday, but after Wall Street's market movers get through stewing in their juices this weekend, expect something like charcoal gray. The Consumer Price Index was way up Friday -- the 0.7 percent hike was the biggest since the Gulf War -- and by close of day the Dow had shed 194 points. Now investors have two days to read the papers, look ahead to the Fed's interest-rate confab Tuesday and wonder: Is the best news on inflation behind us? And more important, does Alan Greenspan think...
...contrast is even more striking in Africa, Diamond said. In the fertile crescent, in the area of the Persian Gulf, cultivation was always easy and fruitful. In the warmer climates in the rest of Africa, suchagriculture was impossible, thus preventing thespread of culture and people since those who weresuccessful in agriculture stayed put for the mostpart...
...contrast is even more striking in Africa, Diamond said. In the fertile crescent, in the area of the Persian Gulf, cultivation was always easy and fruitful. In the warmer climates in the rest of Africa, such agriculture was impossible, thus preventing the spread of culture and people since those who were successful in agriculture stayed put for the most part...
...Jackson appealed to Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad to release a Navy pilot that had been shot down over Lebanon. A few months later he went to Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro and arrange for the liberation of prison inmates. In the months preceding the Gulf War he met with Saddam Hussein to negotiate the release of foreigners being held there. In all these cases, his success in aiding the individuals in need must be appreciated. But at what cost are such victories...
...gulf between NATO's demands and Milosevic's initial offers right now remains too vast to begin negotiations. The alliance insists on an almost total Serb withdrawal from Kosovo and the return of refugees under the protection of a NATO-led force; Milosevic has offered only a partial withdrawal and a lightly armed international force excluding NATO member countries. The alliance will try to bridge that gulf by piling on the pressure. "NATO is escalating its air offensive because Belgrade had grown accustomed to the previous level of bombing," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Escalation is designed to increase...