Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Smart gadgetry for safety and entertainment represents the new lap of luxury. The BMW 740i, for example, can be equipped with a navigation and traction control system that acclimates from driving on normal pavement to moving through a winter storm with the touch of a switch. Road-weary travelers might prefer GM's sophisticated stability system, which uses two-directional sensors attached to the car's suspension, steering column and brakes to keep the car on its intended course. Mercedes last year began offering near obstacle detection, which uses radar to alert drivers to objects close...
After weeks of intense training and sunshine, the women's swimming and diving team braved Saturday's snow storm to race against Pitt in a rare non-Ivy showdown. HARVARD 138 PITTSBURGH...
...news cable outfits, which have less ad revenue to worry about losing anyway. Anyone who wants continuous coverage will be turning to them. Great stories often change news-viewing habits: "Nightline" was born amid the Iran hostage crisis, and CNN came of age with its coverage of Desert Storm. "Impeachment gives each of the cable networks the opportunity to establish the credibility of their reporting and analysis," says Tynan. "And so the great TV story of impeachment will be to see how each of those networks did." And how many of those viewers stick...
...only fools are not afraid when the warning siren sounds. Families huddle in houses, unable to close their eyes as they await the concussive smack of a bomb. Unlike Operation Desert Storm, when the country was pounded mercilessly for 38 days, Operation Desert Fox has come in tense fits and starts through the long nights...
...wait to see Butler's actual report before giving the go order. Before the call ended, there was a second discussion, this time about what Berger carefully described as "any other factors that should lead us to do anything differently." What he meant was the certainty of a political storm in Washington about the timing of the attacks. Despite the President's notorious ability to compartmentalize, holding one set of problems separate in his mind from another, there were no compartments so airtight that they could keep him from noticing that a bombing campaign--even a well-justified one--would...