Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...others, however, if Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refuses to withdraw troops and NATO, facing another credibility gap, sends in ground support, the real events will happen trench by trench. As field commanders on all sides make seemingly insignificant day to day decisions--where to move a group of civilians, which targets in a town will be hit first, which town to move to next--they will come to define the course of the war more definitely than the press releases from home...
...important, the ship will be equipped with a robotic arm and scoop, much like the arms carried aboard the Viking landers in the 1970s. Unlike the Vikings, though, which were able to paw just a few feeble inches into the Martian topsoil, the new ship will gouge out a trench nearly 3 ft. deep...
Heather F. Rose '02 surveys the other membersof the crowd assembled for the Coming of theHour--which featured among the black-clad masses afew trench coats, an unlit medieval torch and oneman in a giant black cloak who refused to give hisname...
...resolution possible sometime this week. But impeachment moves still seem unavoidable: the Republican-controlled Judiciary committee is expected to vote in favor of launching such an inquiry by next week, and the full House would then prepare to start hearings sometime after the November elections. In the bloodless trench warfare over the Clinton presidency, it seems to matter little that Americans want a swift outcome. But it is fair to ask: What if they held a war and nobody showed...
...origins of the stock market's grinding 1,698-point decline, a loss of 8% from the July 17 peak of the Dow Jones industrial average at 9337.97. The company also offers a glimpse of what might come next, as American workers and investors like Dave Trench wonder whether the long boom is over. Should they pull their money out of stocks? Does the market slide foretell a recession? How is any of this bad news possible when the U.S. economy seems so strong, with the lowest unemployment, inflation and interest rates seen in a generation...