Word: preys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...without Soviet- American antagonism to kick it around. If the Kremlin no longer helps to orchestrate conflicts in remote countries, it presides over a veritable Mongolian hot pot of disorder at home. At the same time, impoverished lands like Somalia, with a scant sense of nationhood, remain just as prey to pandemonium as they have been since the mini-Lenins who held them together acquired a fatal bad name. Such primitive sorts of emergencies call on the world's conscience with electronic immediacy. The trouble is, too often they get primitive answers...
...Woodruff killed by criminals in a botched stickup? Or by an overzealous guard at a checkpoint? Or by assassins gunning for him or Gogoladze? The murder remains a mystery. American officials say the killing may have been a random event. Highwaymen regularly prey on motorists along that road. Although three locals were detained and questioned by Georgian authorities several days after the murder, a U.S. official says they were "not political." Two FBI agents flew to Tbilisi last week to participate in the investigation...
...Source lists more than 2,000 law firms, public relations agencies, think tanks, periodicals and interest groups, all of whose employees feed off the power, prestige and federal subsidies thrown off by one president and 535 members of Congress. None of the birds has much actual influence over its prey, and anyone who says anything substantive risks giving offense. Giving offense is a disadvantage to those who read the carrion second...
...familiar sight in Brazil's cities for decades, the meninos de rua (street kids) used to be considered no more than pests. But because they are increasingly blamed for the rising crime rate in Brazil's cities, they have now become prey: an average of four a day are killed. The most shocking attack came around midnight two weeks ago in Rio. Five men opened fire on a group of 50 sleeping children, killing three, ages 11, 14 and 17, on the spot. Two more died in the hospital from gunshot wounds to the head. Two other boys were dragged...
...myth of "man the hunter" has flatteringly obscured our true prehistory as prey. According to the myth, "man" climbed down from the trees one day, strode out into the savanna with a sharpened stick in his hand and started slaughtering the local ungulates. After that, supposedly, the only violence prehumans had to worry about was from other stick-wielding bipeds like themselves. Thus some punctured australopithecine skulls found in Africa were at first chalked up to "intentional armed assault" -- until someone pointed out that the punctures precisely fit the tooth gap of the leopard...