Word: warns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sometimes theoretical debate is becoming intensely practical. As summer approaches and electric companies around the U.S. warn of periodic brownouts, people wonder, Where will we get more juice...
...Army Lieut. General John Shalikashvili, commander of the relief effort, met with Iraqi officers near the border town of Zakhu to warn them to keep their troops away from the camps; at further meetings Americans and Iraqis will try to work out some ground rules to keep the two forces apart. But it is by no means certain that they can succeed, especially if allied soldiers decide to seize Iraqi military airstrips to land construction materials and relief supplies for the camps. The Operation Haven troops could also get caught in cross fire between Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish guerrillas using...
...prime spot to launder money, according to U.S. drug enforcement officials. The local banks lack modern record-keeping systems; to make matters worse, some government officials want to establish confidential numbered accounts to attract hard currency. Justice Department operatives are quietly contacting their East European counterparts to warn them that secrecy laws will almost certainly bring in the kind of tainted cash that regularly flows to Panama and the Caribbean...
...pulling in zillions. She owns a mansion, wears designer clothes, chums with notables at glittering parties. Makes a lot of friends. Makes a lot more enemies, thanks to her inimitable way with the rumors that she gathers for her best sellers. Maybe sends a few anonymous letters to warn off folks who are searching for the real person behind all that pizazz. The lady's got the world on a leash...
Predictions of a drought-induced economic disaster are being scaled back, and a few communities may loosen up their water restrictions. But state officials fear that the latest boon from the skies could deflate efforts to overhaul California's outmoded water pricing, distribution and conservation systems. They warn that rainfall and reservoirs still remain at half their normal yearly levels and that the state's five-year drought is not yet over...