Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has argued that the respite from attacks that began in April was the product of stricter security measures by Israeli and Palestinian officials. Since January, both have cracked down hard on Hamas, making hundreds of arrests, sharing intelligence as never before and even conducting joint operations against the group. Israeli authorities had always doubted that Yasser Arafat, now the head of the Palestinian Authority that governs the self-rule enclaves in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho, was really willing to suppress the militants, but his actions this year have tended...
...interviews with scores of military, intelligence and Administration officials, TIME discovered that the Pentagon has wide-ranging plans to revolutionize the battlefield with information technology much as tanks did in World War I and the atom bomb in World War II. Says Admiral William Owens, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "This is America's gift to warfare...
...crash another country's stock market? More perilous are the security concerns for the U.S., where a tyrant with inexpensive technology could unplug NASDAQ or terrorist hackers could disrupt an airport tower. Giddy excitement over infowar may be shaken by an electronic Pearl Harbor. Last year the government's Joint Security Commission called U.S. vulnerability to infowar "the major security challenge of this decade and possibly the next century...
...among them were kids of Garcia's generation, and in the '60s they enjoyed watching him living out their adolescent dream of cool: playing guitar, traveling the world, doing dope. Then, as these Boomers faced up to middle age--working hard and working out, with only the occasional nostalgic joint at a Dead show--they could also see Garcia mature and decay. They were Dorian Gray, and he was the picture. His belly ballooned; his skin was looser; his hair turned a ratty touch of gray. He looked as if he existed on peanut butter and peyote buttons...
Then came the wild years of shock schlock that included Tom and Roseanne's mooning a stadium of baseball fans before a World Series game and announcing a joint "marriage" to their nubile young assistant. Meanwhile, Tom was throwing his considerable bulk around the Roseanne set, improving the show, by many accounts, but making enemies. "It was an odd situation," he says now. "I was the boyfriend, then I was the fiance, then I was the husband. People just will not respect that...