Word: overruns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just look the other way when East Timor was overrun: Military equipment needed to subdue and slaughter Timorese resisters and civilians was readily sold to Indonesia. Diplomatic support for the invasion was also forthcoming. Kissinger, fresh from needlessly prolonging the Vietnam War and encouraging the murderous Christmas bombing of Hanoi, helpfully suggested that the Indonesian cruelty could be construed as containment of communism in East Timor if dissent was raised...
...witness literature of the 20th century reminds us again and again. But even though The Living and the Dead fails to levitate McNamara and his Pentagon, it touches a heavy truth: Americans did not have to die in Vietnam. The U.S. lost the war, and today the region is overrun by venture capitalists...
...vivid detail, he saw an enormous yellow truck with a green hose that sucked furry little rodents out of the ground. And wouldn't you know it, the next day he had a job at the Ute Mountain Indian reservation, where the farm's irrigation system was being overrun by prairie dogs. On the way home, he noticed an old sewage truck for sale -->
...reminded that we aren't the only predators on the planet, that we're pretty puny ones, in fact, compared with those that do their meat-processing without the aid of metal implements. Maybe, if there were no bears to cull the human population, the wilderness would be overrun by AARP tour groups and camcorder-bearing Japanese...
...commission would be announcing the results as they came in. "The hell with security," Dresner said. "I want to see this." And there they sat near the back of the auditorium, six guys in suits with computer projections in their hands and a lap-top computer. The place was overrun with reporters, but Yeltsin's secret American advisers were never recognized...