Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--Upon returning from their Thanksgiving holiday, the 37 members of MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity will begin to search for new homes...
...paint on a wall at the Habaniya air base were the words DOWN AMERICA. The 75 inspectors--four of them Americans--may have come back, but they were still not welcome. And there was no guarantee that they would now have an easier time carrying out their mission: to search for and destroy Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Bill Clinton seemed skeptical of the hasty, Russian-led diplomatic initiative that had persuaded Baghdad to back down: he continued to dispatch more planes and ships to the region in case Saddam once again interfered with the U.N.'s work...
...inspectors renew their search, they will tangle once again with Iraq's longtime chief of bioweapons production, a diminutive woman named Rihab Rashida Taha or, to the U.N. representatives who distrust her, "Dr. Germ." Little known until last week, when NBC Nightly News revealed her role, Taha was responsible for tests of anthrax and botulinum at Iraq's Salman Pak facility, first on rats and mice, then on rhesus monkeys, beagles and donkeys. Still unreleased videotapes seized by the U.N. two years ago show animals that had been exposed to germ agents writhing and dying in agony...
...gynecologist for a routine exam. When he heard the diagnosis (premature ovarian failure) rendered by a specialist at one of Manhattan's pre-eminent fertility clinics, he scoffed, "You're awfully young for that." I told him my husband Joe and I were launched on an adoption search, but he ignored me. Instead he palpated here, suggested we snip a sample for a biopsy there, then asked, eyes glowing with expectation, "Would you do anything to have a baby?" His confident expression dimmed when I answered firmly, "No, I would...
VANCOUVER: APEC summits once had the atmosphere of a ticker tape parade trumpeting the miraculous economic growth of Asian economies. This week, however, the Asian Tigers limped to Vancouver in search of a solution to the currency crisis ravaging their economies. Even though the summit was upbeat about Asia's economic fundamentals, its decision to create an IMF bailout formula, with attendant political risks, was the strongest indicator of the depth of the crisis...