Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, Germany's initial hesitancy to support the anti-Iraq coalition may have helped produce Bonn's recent burst of assertive energy. The term gulf syndrome is applied to German leaders who, stung by criticism of their early reluctance to support Desert Storm, are determined never again to be thought timid. There is even some concern that Kohl is going too far in that direction. "Except for Hitler you have to go back a long way to find a German head of government who speaks so provocatively and insensitively about the outside world," says Heinrich Jaenecke, a columnist...
Yasser Arafat's Plane Downed in Storm; Search Continues...
Shelter from the Storm...
...news programs talked about the disaster that befalls people when they have catastrophic illnesses. We did something about it. And we means-tested it and ((made sure it was)) paid for by the group that would use it and need it the most. And there was a fire storm over that. I'll never forget the pictures on television of ((House Ways and Means chairman)) Dan Rostenkowski having his car nearly tipped over in his district because elderly people were so angry they might have to pay a few hundred dollars a year...
...storm of headlines stole the thunder from the campaign for Britain's April 9 general election. That the split also upstaged news about the nation's deepest slump since World War II demonstrated one value of the House of Windsor today: as a distraction. At a time of anguish over Britain's national direction, a Hollywood-style cult of celebrity surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's offspring has endowed the royal clan with a more modern relevancy. The Queen's second son and his wayward wife provided everything in the way of gossip-page dramatics that their 1986 wedding seemed...