Word: expectedly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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America's amazing August charge into the desert of Saudi Arabia could have been a military disaster. The first troops to arrive were ill-equipped and vastly outnumbered by the Iraqi tank army poised in occupied Kuwait. Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division were told to expect to go directly into combat, though they carried nothing more effective against tanks than puny Dragon rockets and risky-to-use TOW missiles...
...going rate, fishermen have given away more than a ton of lobsters to local charities. Prices are falling because demand has failed to keep up with an overabundant catch. The slumping economy has hurt tourism in New England, and families have been avoiding luxury foods. But don't expect bargains when eating out: many restaurants still charge top dollar because they think customers are inured to high prices. Lobstermen hope that profits will rise soon, when brokers begin stockpiling the crustaceans for the winter...
...They tell us we'll be here about a year," says a private. "We're being told to expect to fight in about 30 days -- as soon as all the guys are here. By mid-September we should have about 100,000 troops. They're telling us to expect to take Kuwait." He adds that the troops have been told that if Saddam Hussein withdraws from Kuwait, the 82nd will go home without fighting. "I hope that's what he'll do," says the private. "If we go into Kuwait, I'm going...
...public has turned increasingly pessimistic. In a TIME/CNN poll taken last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 59% of the adults surveyed said they expect a recession, up from 55% two weeks ago. The vast majority expect conditions to deteriorate: 66% anticipate rising unemployment, 75% foresee higher interest rates, and 86% believe inflation will increase. They have good reason for gloom, beyond the tendency for such fears to become self-fulfilling prophecies. Big oil-price increases act like a stiff tax increase, pulling money out of consumers' pockets and reducing their ability to buy other products. A rule of thumb...
...debate. Western and some Middle Eastern analysts point to the success the U.S. has had so far in isolating Iraq. Anti- American demonstrations have occurred in six Arab states, but Egypt, Syria and Morocco have sent troops to help the U.S. and its European allies confront Saddam. Optimistic analysts expect that, at least if war comes as a result of a clear Iraqi provocation and the U.S. wins quickly, the Arab world will go with the winner and see Saddam Hussein as a blusterer who sacrificed huge amounts of treasure and lives and breached Arab unity by invading Kuwait...