Word: traps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handouts?" asks Hasan al-Ebraheem. The answer is that nothing will change unless everything changes. And the way for everything to change is to take a country that had more than 2 million people before August and recreate it with only 1 million. "The only way to exit the trap of dependency," says Tareq al- Suwaidan, the opposition leader, who wholeheartedly shares the planners' dreams of a new Kuwaiti demography, "is to make it impossible for people to be reliant on others. Most of those who have done the real work in the past will have to go. Then there...
...paralysis, they also deserve credit for some noteworthy victories this year. In a remarkably swift turnabout, Japan agreed to phase out its large-scale drift-net operations in the Pacific. Under pressure, Taiwan and South Korea have also agreed to curb the use of the giant nets, which indiscriminately trap turtles and marine mammals along with fish. In the U.S. the Interior Department banned offshore drilling in a number of sensitive areas for 10 years, buying time to understand better the interaction of oil and delicate marine ecosystems...
...skids to a panicked stop and gives the alarm. The rattlesnake simply slithers into the bushes. At a 19th century "Mexican" village whose cantina is stocked with root beer, Dennis Meade, 18, finds a rare gas-fired outdoor shower in a meadow. He also notices a barrel-shaped relocation trap on rubber wheels awaiting an especially pesky local bear. In the shower Meade hears a noise. The bear has walked into the dressing enclosure; he and the animal stare at each other for a tense moment until the bear leaves. In a narrow valley by a trout stream, Tim Anderson...
Maksoud said policy makers should not fall into the "trap" of choosing between Iraq and Kuwait. "We are not to be put in a position where we have to choose between Iraq and Kuwait. There is a moral obligation to restore Kuwait's sovereignty. There is also a moral and pragmatic responsibility to consider Iraqi claims," he said...
...find fat oppression an appalling and inadequate substitute for humor. Our society has yet to realize that the human body cannot easily be sculpted according to the culture's demands. In fact, we don't have much control over our body shape, and efforts to manipulate the body frequently trap individuals in a painful and psychologically draining cycle...