Word: waterized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't be sure of dropping their payloads on the right place. Last week that changed. Across 70% of Yugoslavia, elevators creaked to a halt, faucets dribbled, stoves cooled and TVs blackened. Traffic lights and tram lines were out, and pump failures forced Serbs to the Danube River for water to flush their toilets. And as the bombing expanded, so did the civilian casualties. On Friday night an allied warplane--most likely a U.S. B-2--dropped a load of bombs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing four and infuriating the Chinese. That bombing bungle followed a week...
From a young reporter this is to be expected. But two decades later, Null, 54 is still warning of a variety of medical bogeymen out to gull a trusting public. Fluoridation of water, for example, was pressed on the U.S. by "public relations men and their industrial paymasters," he writes in Get Healthy Now! Even his recent problem at PBS, he implies, may have been an attempt to silence him. "The guardians of the gates of orthodoxy at PBS," he says darkly, "you don't know who their friends...
Leaders of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM) said they came away from a meeting with University attorney Allan M. Ryan Jr. and a representative of Price water house Coopers (PWC) on Wednesday still unhappy about the conditions of a deal between the University and the accounting company...
...amazing thing is that Lucas found an audience for his adolescent fantasies put to life, an audience bigger than any ever seen before by a movie studio. Suddenly, corporate mouths began to water. Lucas' space epic had brought to light a mass of consumers hitherto untouched (at least as a group) by American businesses: consumers who wanted to be treated like kids. Popular culture would never be the same...
...game of chicken, but the Republicans already look bad on Kosovo," Branegan says. "Clinton could probably score some points by accusing Congress of slowing down the bill with pork, and they'd have to clean it up and send it back." Hopefully sometime before NATO has to start dropping water balloons...