Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brown with the dried blood of a neighbor mortally wounded by a sniper in broad daylight two days earlier. Shrapnel burst through the bedroom window of Puzic's 12-year-old son Damir and ripped the carpet. On the ground floor, Sandra Makcic's bedroom was gutted by a shell a month ago, minutes after she left it. Said Ramisa Trtak, 70, who moved into the building after her house in an outlying quarter was obliterated: "During the World War they aimed at strategic targets. In this idiotic war they aim at civilians...
...unemployment is rooted in trends that began in the 1980s, when harried companies slashed payrolls to lower costs and meet increasingly fierce competition from abroad. Now, in a classic Catch-22 situation, U.S. firms are continuing their cutbacks partly because shell-shocked consumers are fearful of losing their jobs and are thus reluctant to spend. "The insecurity keeps everyone in limbo," says Audrey Freedman, president of the Manpower Plus consulting firm. "No matter what the mortgage rate is, people don't want to buy houses, trade up or commit funds. I think we're entering a decade or more...
Ross Perot is fond of condemning Washington as "a town filled with sound bites, shell games, handlers and media stunt men." His disdain for politics- as-usual propels his anti-campaign. Yet Perot has turned over management of his crusade to a bipartisan corps of political pros who exemplify everything Perot says he opposes. Their efforts to transform Perot's volunteer army into a more traditional campaign brigade have sown widespread resentment and anger among his early enlistees...
...experts doubt that a full-scale airlift could bring in enough food to do more than help Sarajevo's 400,000 residents survive. A genuine end to the - siege might require opening an overland corridor from Split. That would be a still more difficult task if relief convoys negotiating shell-pocked roads also had to shoot their way past Serbian roadblocks...
...kids can afford to shell out $30 to $50 for a pair of Tevas, and more than $80 for Birkenstocks...