Word: gulfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thanks to an extremely mild winter, trees across much of the U.S.--including maple, alder, cottonwood and oak--are budding two to three weeks early, filling the air with their irritating pollen. Add torrential rains, which have produced bumper crops of wildflowers and grasses in the Southeast, along the Gulf Coast and in Southern California, and you have the makings of what some experts predict will be the worst allergy season in 20 years...
...said there would be "peace for our time." And in 1939 Hitler invaded Poland and World War II began. Let us remember why we have arrived at this point with Iraq. It is because Saddam and his clique have not kept their side of the bargain reached after the Gulf War. A signature on a piece of paper is meaningless. What matters is the character of the person signing it. History repeats itself. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan seems as naive to me as Chamberlain. Annan came back from Baghdad with a worthless piece of paper. PAUL MONTAGUE Sydney...
...first week of February, and the U.S.S. Independence was steaming into the Persian Gulf bearing its complement of attack aircraft to begin the bombing of Iraq. In Washington, the U.S. national-security apparatus continued its countdown to armed conflict. The prospects for war largely depended on sensitive diplomatic negotiations centered on the U.N. Inside knowledge of those secret discussions could give an adversary or even an ally an edge over Washington, as the White House struggled to prevent countries like France and Russia from letting Saddam Hussein off the hook...
...ruling reinstates the case of oil-rig worker Joseph Oncale--earlier thrown out by an appeals court--against Sundowner Offshore Services, a Houston firm that drills for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Oncale had worked on offshore rigs before (and does today), but says he never encountered such abusive treatment as when he signed on with Sundowner in 1991. He claims, for instance, that three male co-workers held him down in a shower and shoved a bar of soap between his buttocks. One of them threatened rape, he says. He quit and later was found to have posttraumatic...
...stands to profit most from the expansion of the Oil for Food program the U.N. put into place just before Kofi Annan went to Baghdad? The new plan will allow Iraq to increase its sales to roughly half the amount of oil it was pumping before the Gulf War. As it turns out, France and Russia pushed the program much harder than Iraq, which initially feared this option would reduce pressure to get sanctions lifted. But Saddam Hussein realized that the more cash he could earn to buy food to keep Iraqis from starving, the more hard currency reserves -- into...