Word: gulfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generals this week will insist to Congress that they must be funded well enough to fight and win two Gulf War-size conflicts at once. They will point out (surprisingly, one might think, with spending still near cold war levels) that the number of warriors in U.S. fighting forces--Army maneuver battalions, Navy ships and Air Force planes--has dropped nearly half over the past decade. And some surviving units, according to audits earlier this year, are "ghost squads," without a single soldier assigned to them...
After wreaking havoc in the Caribbean, Hurricane Georges swept through the Florida Keys, across the Gulf of Mexico and yesterday hit land again on the Gulf Coast...
...that the U.S., which was being polite about his latest appointment, has ever found Primakov easy to take. Washington officials vividly remember how he showed up in Baghdad late in 1990 in an effort to rescue his friend Saddam Hussein and head off the Gulf War. Since then he has been head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, which succeeded the KGB. As Foreign Minister, he has done his best to prevent the expansion of NATO, lift the sanctions on Iraq and forestall Western military action against Serbia. Even so, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has gone...
...newsworthy events, TIME sometimes produces a special attached page. We did it during the Gulf War, and this week we do it with a photo of Mark McGwire's record-breaking home run. You can find it as part of our story in Sports by Joel Stein (who wrote the cover story on the home-run race seven weeks...
...George Bush, during the U.S. buildup in the gulf b) Bill Clinton, two weeks...