Word: spills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing else, gives African Americans a special stake in Operation Desert Storm: they make up 12% of the U.S. population, but represent nearly 25% of the fighting forces in the Persian Gulf. When the air war finally shifts to a grinding ground confrontation, therefore, they are likely to spill a disproportionate amount of blood onto the desert sands. That has only fueled uneasiness among those blacks who feel that their friends and loved ones are being asked to do more than their fair share of dying for a nation that gives them less than their share of economic and social...
...Iraqis may have released up to 120 million gal. by late last week -- almost a dozen times as much as the Exxon Valdez leaked into Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. And this time any cleanup could be a deadly mission in itself. The spill is "in enemy territory," says Marine Major General Robert Johnston, the U.S. Central Command's chief of staff. "We can't just go in and shut...
...Iraq reportedly deployed missile launchers facing Turkey, and unleashed a second major oil spill in the gulf...
...during the graveyard shift of 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. For instance, between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m., the rate of fatigue-related accidents for single trucks is 10 times as high as the rate during the day. Experts say it is no surprise that the Exxon Valdez oil spill as well as the disasters at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, and the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island occurred after midnight, when distractions are few and operators are liable to be at their drowsiest...
...emotional effects can spill over to all parts of a person's life. In times of crisis, says Columbia's Gorman, someone who tends toward pessimism will not worry about just the economy but will also fret about getting sick or wonder whether war will break out in the Middle East. Barbara McCuen at the University of Nebraska at Omaha warns that there may be psychological fallout for the family. "The tensions come out at home," she says. "A five-year-old may not understand why there won't be a big Christmas...