Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...public comments pointed but brief while lining up unanimous support for the Security Council resolution condemning Iraq, then turned to the harder task of enlisting allied support for military action. The President has never been one to rush into major military engagements. He prefers to wait until opportunities present themselves. In Bosnia he agonized and delayed for years until the warring sides were exhausted, then bombed the Serbs to the peace table. But he knows there's no time for that now. As he draws nearer to the brink, the President will have to do a better job of making...
...irksome foreigner as a solution to deeply rooted problems. But a James Bond-style directive is not the only way a President can grant a license to kill. In 1986 Reagan bombed Libyan "terrorist-related targets" that happened to be places where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was often present. During the Gulf War, coalition forces attacked Saddam's palaces and bunkers. Now the Pentagon is ready with a new list of his hangouts. And if Clinton wanted to send a sniper instead of a cruise missile, he could amend Executive Order...
Call and McCrae are the author's unsolved problems. In Lonesome Dove they were amusing middle-aged adolescents, which seemed to be the author's gloss on the American West. This means, however, that in the long present novel they spend many, many chapters not maturing: Gus mooning for his lost Clara, and Woodrow being cold to Maggie, his son's mother. When they turn sideways on stage, they are seen to be band-sawed from plywood, a drawback that at last seems to matter...
...monitor the patient's brain waves and alert the medical staff if there is a potentially dangerous state of awareness will save the sanity of many surgical patients. But many of those who experienced such a trauma long ago may not even realize that surgery was the cause of present stress. Physicians should screen for such a history when patients have flashbacks or refuse to undergo necessary procedures. There are short-term treatments to resolve the trauma. LOUIS W. TINNIN, M.D. Trauma Recovery Institute Morgantown, W.Va...
...still the controversy grows over the McCaughey's use of fertility drugs. The debate is likely to be fueled by new research released Monday, which shows the sperm count dropping even lower among Western men than scientists had previously suspected. If infertility is such a present danger, perhaps we ought to be glad of all the multiple births...