Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Iraq says it will pour 250,000 more troops into Kuwait. U.S. Army and Marine Corps announce call-ups of 26,625 reserves. Bush, in Mideast, meets Egypt's President Mubarak and Syria's President Assad on the crisis. Senate Armed Services Committee opens hearings on Bush's gulf policy U.N. Security Council votes 12-2 to give Iraq until Jan. 15 to pull its troops out of Kuwait, after which United States and its allies are free to use military force. Bush says he is willing to send Baker to Baghdad in effort to end gulf crisis...
...notorious species of premed, feared by all phyla of preprofessionals, violates all codified premed mores. They fiendishly slice out copies of past years' final exams from library bound volumes, using scalpels smuggled from their labs. They magnetize videotapes of past lectures. These future physicians have even been known to pour acid on classmates' notes when they go to the bathroom...
AFTER THE WARMING (PBS, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. on most stations). Environmental documentaries continue to pour forth like acid rain. This one is sparked by a lucid, witty host, James Burke (Connections), who "looks back" from the year 2050 to see what disasters global warming has wrought...
...Gender Gap? When it came to the "woman factor," the patterns were just as difficult to discern. This was supposed to be the year that women candidates would pour into office in record numbers. More women were running for top posts than ever before: eight each for the U.S. Senate and governorships, 67 for the House of Representatives. With few exceptions these candidates were experienced politicians who had worked their way up through the system and established networks of support that might carry them into high office at last...
...Secretary Robert Mosbacher told Bush to veto the budget plan and run hard against Democrats. Secretary of State James Baker opined, "Get out of this as quickly as possible." Heeding Baker, Bush accepted the compromise deal. Embarrassed White House officials, including some who contributed to the problem, tried to pour cold water over rescue-mission reports. But as one longtime Bush adviser acknowledged, "Bush hates handlers, but he needs them...