Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WAR AND REMEMBRANCE (ABC, Nov. 13-23). Cast of thousands! Cost of millions! Makes Roots look like a sapling! The mammoth sequel to The Winds of War closes out its 18-hour fall campaign this week and sets the stage for a twelve-hour- plus conclusion next year...
...candidates were encouraged to talk about everything but what was happening under their feet. The ground was slipping out from under Americans -- to foreign investors, to revenue collection that has become a vast servicing of our debt, to cold war commitments that do not exude power but exhaust it, to involuntary and unconfessed curtailments of our postwar imperial mission. Who could advert to these amid the smoke of muskets and the feeble blaze of opposed "likabilities...
...Bush years. The new President enters office with no clear mandate for imposing the tough solutions that will be necessary to tackle the nation's festering budget crisis. Nor has he propounded a vision for fin-de-siecle America or for a world that is moving beyond the cold war. Nevertheless, he won the 1988 election with a toughness that surprised even his friends, and now he faces the opportunity and the challenge of serving as the nation's 41st President...
...incident, in which at least two wardens were wounded, was the latest skirmish in a war that has pitted a growing army of rhino and elephant poachers against an outgunned force of rangers and police. The lure for poachers is great: prized in Asia as an aphrodisiac and in Yemen for making dagger handles, a single rhino horn can fetch as much...
...foreign representatives descending on my country and picking up on all the dirty work instead of all the beauty, promise and goodwill," Botha said. Amid hisses and catcalls, he refused to accept the traditional vote of thanks and quoted instead from a speech by Boer War leader Paul Kruger to a group of foreigners. "His opening words were 'Friends, citizens, thieves and enemies,' " said Botha. "And that is how I look upon you this evening...