Word: normans
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Last fall the CIA warned the White House that Operation Desert Shield could, if it continued too long, worsen underlying tensions between mosque and palace in Saudi Arabia. It was largely with that danger in mind that General Norman Schwarzkopf, the U.S. commander, told his officers, "Let's be careful we don't win the war but lose the peace." There's no way nearly 400,000 troops can be invisible, but there are plenty of ways they can respect local customs. That's why quite a few women in the U.S. contingent bought abayyas before they did any other...
They also argue that the morale of U.S. troops will decline the longer they remain in the desert. But as Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf, commander of U.S. ground forces in the Gulf, has stated, "If it's a choice between spending another summer in the desert and dying," the desert doesn't seem...
...from Beebe's own abdominal tissue, moving it into place minutes after the general surgeons had removed the diseased breast. The technique spares the patient the anguish of amputation. "Our basic philosophy is that you don't leave the hospital without a breast," explains Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery chairman Norman Hugo, who performed the operation...
...Happy-Hour Defense Northwest Airlines Captain Norman Prouse offered a woozy excuse when he and two colleagues faced criminal charges for flying a jet while drunk. His lawyer claimed that because Prouse is an alcoholic, the 15 or so rum-and-colas he downed before flying did not impair him as much as they would a moderate drinker. But the judge served up a 16-month sentence...
...strip homeless policy of its mythology. For years, whenever the congressional committees or the network-news programs took up the cause, they would call Robert Hayes, founder of the National Coalition for the Homeless, and put in an order for an intact white family recently evicted from a Norman Rockwell painting -- people, they said, with whom others could identify. Yet in cities like New York, such families account for less than 10% of the homeless population, a tiny proportion compared with the homeless who are drug addicts, ex-convicts, alcoholics, single mothers, mostly black and Hispanic. Homeless advocates admit...