Word: swear
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...danger. After a dip in the '70s, membership surged during the Reagan era. Today 4.3 million young people belong to Cub Scouts and its precursor Tigers (for boys 6 to 10), Boy Scouts (boys 11 to 17) and Explorers (both sexes, 14 to 20). The two younger groups must swear loyalty to God and country. Explorers take no oath, and thus the 1.2 million-member branch has largely kept clear of courtroom battles but has weakened scouting's claim that religious faith is central to its mission...
...House back when George Bush was CIA director, and the two didn't meet then. But Gates astutely courted Bush once he became Vice President, arranging briefings for Bush before he attended funerals of foreign leaders. When Gates was appointed deputy CIA director in 1986, he asked Bush to swear him in. After Gates moved to the Bush White House in 1989, he, unlike previous Deputy National Security Advisers, was invited to attend almost all the meetings Scowcroft holds with Bush, including each morning's round of intelligence and national-security briefings...
...polyurethane foam coating of the Surgitek products prevented this from happening by substantially increasing the surface area of the implant. When the neighboring tissue contracts, it does not become too compact. Surgeons who have used the models -- which came into widespread use only in the past decade -- swear by it, as do many women. Said one recipient: "They feel just like a non-implant pair of breasts...
...Room in Weld Hall: Check out the cracks in the window frames. A continual blast of icy air flows through the walls here, keeping the entire dormitory in subarctic conditions. One particularly cold morning in January--I swear I am not making this up--I woke up to find that my shampoo had frozen...
...terms for a permanent cease-fire. As expected, the measure requires Iraq to destroy its chemical and biological weapons and ballistic missiles with a range of more than 93 miles, set aside a portion of oil revenues to pay claims arising from its invasion of Kuwait, and swear to respect its 1963 border with that country. On Saturday, Baghdad formally accepted in a 23-page letter to the U.N. that also complained the resolution was harsh and unjust. But, said Saadi Mahdi Saleh, speaker of Iraq's parliament, "we have no alternative but to accept." A U.N. observer force will...