Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administration must prove it can attract lesser-known junior faculty in the field. Two professors do not a department make, even if one of them is among the best in the business. And Harvard has a responsibility to develop younger scholars in the field--not merely to raid the upper echelons of other universities' faculties...
...them begins: "It takes a special person to serve our country . . ." Next, maybe the writers at the Kansas City firm will work on a set of soothing homilies for the 200 million anxious consumers on the home front. Having grown accustomed to the sudden scream of air-raid sirens in the darkness 7,000 miles away, they still have no idea how this war is going to change their lives and their economic futures...
Previous generations of pilots had spoken of a "bomber's moon." But that was in an era of what would now be considered low-tech conflict. Today the ideal condition for an air raid is a pitch-black night. Infrared devices and laser- guided bombs enable pilots to see and hit their targets through inky darkness; moonlight would serve only to make their planes more visible to antiaircraft gunners. Jan. 15 was the first of three moonless nights in Iraq and Kuwait. No good; the U.S. considered the deadline for using force to be midnight American Eastern Standard Time...
...outside world got the first news from Western television correspondents at the Al Rasheed Hotel in downtown Baghdad, who told of hearing air-raid sirens and seeing tracer bullets and antiaircraft bursts lighting up the black skies. For a while, though, no bomb explosions could be heard; George Bush, listening to and watching TV in the White House, started to get a bit edgy. Finally, a noise that was indisputably a bomb blast could be heard over an open telephone line to correspondents at just about 7 p.m. EST -- 3 a.m. Thursday in Baghdad. "Just the way it was scheduled...
...such luck. Early Friday morning, air-raid sirens went off through much of Israel. The government radio ordered all citizens to don the gas masks that had been distributed earlier and move into the sealed rooms that every household had been urged to prepare. Then blasts began rocking Tel Aviv and Haifa. Early reports said at least one missile warhead had released nerve gas and that a hospital in Tel Aviv was receiving gassed victims...