Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...start of it was chillingly familiar: the wail of sirens, the staccato blasts of antiaircraft fire, the tracers lighting up the night sky over Baghdad. Then came the crash of missiles in the distance, sending up an orange glow along the horizon. On just the first night of Operation Desert Fox, U.S. ships and bombers pounded Iraq with 280 American cruise missiles--almost as many as hit the country during the entire Gulf War in 1991. Night after night, waves of warplanes, including B-52s, F-14s, F-18s and British Tornadoes, joined in the attack. Even...
...wonder, When will the gently twinkling lights be snuffed out by a sudden explosion of fire? When will the neon lines of tracers redraw the contours of the landscape in unthinkable ways? Will the trees and houses and mosques and suspect sites spreading peacefully toward the horizon be nothing but dust and rubble tomorrow? Will people...
...From where we sit, we don't look at it as something that's been going on for a very long time," Wilson said. "We're not just looking at the next 10 years; we're looking at a long horizon of 25 years to a century...
...planning a new, risky gambit. "Iraq is downgrading its presence at the U.N. and may at this point actually want a U.S. military strike to boost its campaign for international support against sanctions," says Dowell. In other words, an exchange of bigger pieces may be on the horizon...
...always peering over the horizon. In the 1920s he foresaw an energy boom and took the company into pipeline construction. Later he helped pioneer the now common "turnkey" construction contract, under which Bechtel would design a project, build it, and turn it over to the owner by a set date, for a fixed fee. In 1959 he helped produce a study for a tunnel under the English Channel, a project finally realized this decade...