Word: gulf
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...former President George Bush, First Lady Barbara Bush, two-time Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers and women's golf champion Pat Bradley. As this small sample indicates, Graves' Disease tends to manifest itself in very active and energetic individuals. In fact, as journalists speculated in the aftermath of the Gulf War, President Bush's Graves' Disease may have been precipitated by the stresses of a new presidency and an escalating international conflict...
...NATO ally. The U.S. does not entirely trust Russia, which resents the arrival of foreign influence in what were Soviet republics. To Washington, the Islamist regime in Iran looks even less friendly. "The last thing we need," says a White House aide, "is to rely on the Persian Gulf as the main access for more...
...could be about to play games once more with the U.N. Official Iraqi newspapers are making dark threats of sanctions-busting, while foreign minister Mohammed Said al-Sahaf told the New York Times Sunday that "trade has already started." Whether that means Iraq is selling oil illegally, risking another Gulf conflict, al-Sahaf wouldn't say. But bluster or otherwise, the timing of his statement was no accident. The Security Council can consider itself duly warned...
...ESPN's preeminence in the TV sports biz -- or maybe just fair play -- that sent the White House to the other cable network, and not that horrific Gulf War II town hall that CNN hosted for the Cohen-Albright-Berger triumvirate this winter. In any case, the Prez himself will do the honors this time, with ESPN's Bob Ley moderating a panel that includes Jim Brown, University of Georgia AD Vince Dooley; Minnesota Vikings coach Dennis Green, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, ESPN analyst Joe Morgan, San Diego Padres chairman John Moores, San Francisco 49ers president Carmen Policy and Georgetown University...
...campaign to "export"--the term was his--the revolution to surrounding Muslim countries. His provocations of Iraq in 1980 helped start a war that lasted eight years, at the cost of a million lives, and that ended only after America intervened to sink several Iranian warships in the Persian Gulf. Iranians asked whether God had revoked his blessing of the revolution. Khomeini described the defeat as "more deadly than taking poison...