Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being ravaged by the worst crisis in the company's 79-year history. It is undergoing its fifth restructuring in the past seven years as well as seemingly endless rounds of job cuts and firings that have eliminated 100,000 jobs since 1985. Last week IBM announced to its shell-shocked investors that it lost $4.97 billion last year -- the biggest loss in American corporate history...
ENOUGH WAS FINALLY ENOUGH FOR GEORGE BUSH. He had simmered through weeks of Saddam Hussein's devilishly creative cheating on U.N. Security Council resolutions. The Iraqis kept piling on the defiance with daily forays into Kuwaiti territory to haul away weapons and equipment, while Saddam continued to play a shell game with antiaircraft missiles in the southern no-fly zone of Iraq. Faced with such brazenness at the beginning of his last week in the White House, Bush raged against the dying of his presidency...
...Crimson attack continues the barrage it leveled against St. Lawrence and Clarkson last weekend, Gallant may have to be treated for shell shock after the game...
...being committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and anyone watching television can see the gruesome effects every day. War is not pretty, but it has its rules. Whenever armies torture or murder civilians, imprison them in concentration camps or drive them off the land, when they burn houses, wantonly shell cities and rape women, they are committing war crimes...
Under the blazing morning sun a hodgepodge of military vehicles falls into sloppy formation on the dunes near the Mogadishu airport. Somali children sneak through shell holes in a wall to beg for food and baksheesh. Marines shoot souvenir snapshots of each other as the convoy slowly takes shape...