Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bosnia, vs. 52% who said the U.S. has already done enough. For many Americans, the horror of Bosnia is a modern- day Holocaust that carries a moral obligation to intervene. Some Americans think the U.S. can do so at a low cost in lives, expecting the fast-acting, high-tech precision of the Gulf War. But many shudder and see the frustration of Vietnam, the years of domestic conflict and the long black slabs of the Vietnam Memorial engraved with 58,000 names...
...INTELLIGENCE IS MAKING A CRASH EFFORT TO discover the roots of an alleged plot to assassinate former President Bush during his triumphant visit to Kuwait last month. Kuwaiti officials have arrested 16 people, including 11 Iraqi nationals, and have seized high-tech equipment and hundreds of pounds of explosives. According to the Washington Post, Kuwaiti officials say three attempts were planned, first a remote-controlled car bomb set to detonate as Bush arrived at Kuwait City, a second car bomb near a theater where Bush received an honorary doctorate, and last, a suicide attack by a man wrapped in explosives...
...There might even be savings in the long run because if there was somebody really overseeing the tech work and the technical equipment there wouldn't be so much wash in renting things and losing things," Kiely says...
...high-tech computer executive overheard her boss ask the training department why it was sending her to a conference when "she won't want to come back to us when the baby is born." When she did return to work after a three-week maternity leave, her boss asked, "Why aren't you going after that new job in that department? Has your ambition gone away now that you have two children...
...decidedly conventional. Black cowboy boots are the only modest eccentricity in a wardrobe full of dark suits, crisp white shirts and suspenders to match his muted ties. He stands 6 ft. 1 in., and his weight fluctuates by a hundred pounds or more from year to year. His high-tech apartment-cum-office is decorated with a peace poster from the Eugene McCarthy campaign, which introduced him to Clinton, and framed photos of himself with the President and the First Lady...