Word: enough
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...probe keeps working, scientists will by next summer have mapped some % 90% of the planet. Magellan's radar detectors can pick up features as small as 120 meters (394 ft.) across, 10 times smaller than anything ever seen before. That should be enough to begin answering some important questions about the geology and atmosphere of the planet. Although nearly the same size as Earth, Venus has an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. These gases have created an atmospheric pressure at the surface 90 times that of Earth and led to a greenhouse effect that keeps the temperature...
Distancing himself from his new party's secessionist whims, Hickel hopes to ride a wave of discontent with Republican candidate Arliss Sturgulewski, a state senator who supports legalized abortion and opposes capital punishment. G.O.P. officials fear Hickel might win enough votes to hand a November victory to Democratic candidate Tony Knowles. But one Sturgulewski supporter, senate president Tim Kelly of Anchorage, shrugs off the Hickel-Coghill threat. Says Kelly: "You've got two old dogs who want to bay at the moon one last time, but their time has gone...
...black abayahs, % the few young dancers left in the discotheques. The tension is evident in the conversation of Iraqi ministers, at one moment fevered and passionate, the next dazed and even depressed. It surfaces in the frustration of the businessman who cannot comprehend that "an Arab solution" is not enough for the rest of the world. It stares out from the eyes of the mother whose sons have just been discharged from eight years at the Iranian front...
...Most, however, are working class or poor, and cannot afford resorts. "They have been led to think that fighting the Americans will be like fighting the Iranians. The leadership knows how bad it will be -- but not people in the street. Still, they are saying, 'Haven't we had enough war? Do we need another war, and why?' They don't care about Kuwait. The big mistake journalists make is to think Saddam enjoys the support of the people. We call him 'Big Charlie.' He is not popular, among ordinary people especially. There is a ferocious silent majority...
...that anger will come when today's children are old enough to realize how relentlessly their needs were ignored. They will see that their parents and grandparents have left them enormous debts and a fouled environment. They will recognize that their exceptionally prosperous, peaceful, lucky predecessors, living out the end of the millennium, were not willing to make the investments necessary to ensure that the generation to follow could enjoy the same blessings...