Word: pit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unaccounted for. During the height of the U.N. intervention in Somalia, U.N. agencies were spending $1 million a day to maintain their peacekeeping operations in the country, much of it devoted to elaborate support facilities in Mogadishu: hundreds of air-conditioned apartments, a new sewerage system, even a barbecue pit. The U.N. University, an organization that helps coordinate U.N.-funded research projects worldwide, spent much of its budget between 1982 and 1992 erecting a $100 million building on some of the most expensive real estate in downtown Tokyo...
...Angeles the next year promising to reform the department's "paramilitary mentality." But the outsider allowed Gates' entire command staff to stay on the job and failed to oust most of the 44 problem officers. He didn't remake the department, and he couldn't be the patrolman's pit bull, as Gates had been. So now he courts irrelevance...
...spent many a day of my youth hanging out in the pit," said a tenant on Harvard Street. "But now I want distance from the chaos of Harvard Square...
...black hole." Harr was told he would be "digging quarters out of car seats" before he finished being Schlichtmann's Boswell. Jerome Facher, Beatrice's attorney and a Harvard Law School instructor, offered an equally dire assessment. "The truth," he said, "is at the bottom of a bottomless pit...
...America now lies with the outcome of the 1996 election. Only a second, more conservative welfare reform bill can solve the fatal flaws that plague the current system, flaws that if left uncorrected will lead only to the further deterioration of the American family and a deepening to the pit of poverty in which so many millions of Americans are trapped...