Word: fool
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tenant ownership of public housing -- that are dear to conservative hearts. But Administration officials admit privately that some of these, such as Bush's inevitable pitch for lower capital-gains taxes, are included simply to keep the right quiet. Said a senior Administration official: "We're trying to fool them as long...
France furnished about a fifth of Iraq's imported weapons systems, including Mirage F-1s, Puma attack helicopters, and Exocet as well as antitank and antiaircraft missiles. The camouflage nets and plastic decoys being used by Iraq to fool allied flyers were also sold by French companies. "You send them a check, and they'll sell you anything," an American pilot fumed last week. More worrisome, France sold Iraq the Osirak nuclear reactor that was bombed by Israel in 1981. After that attack, which heightened concerns that Iraq might be pursuing a nuclear-weapons capability, Paris shied away from nuclear...
Counterfeit armaments can easily fool pilots zipping overhead who may not have time to analyze infrared images of their targets, which reveal the wooden husks below for what they are. Except, that is, when the decoys include heaters to simulate the infrared signature of, say, a tank engine, and perhaps crude transmitters to produce radar signals. A deluxe imitation tank from M.V.M. runs about $23,000, a lot cheaper than the real thing, which can cost $1 million or more...
Though Baker, the diplomat, was clearly depressed by the outcome of the discussions, his boss, the Commander in Chief, was unfazed. As Bush aides explained it, the Baker-Aziz conference confirmed the President's expectations without realizing his worst fears. "Anybody who expected a breakthrough in Geneva was a fool," said a White House official. At the same time, the Administration had worried that the Iraqis would spring a dramatic surprise, offering, perhaps, a partial withdrawal, which would have frayed the coalition against Saddam and made Congress less likely to authorize Bush to use force. That Aziz unpopped no jack...
...that -- gasp! -- bear a striking resemblance to present-day folk; the baffled reaction of doctors and police to mysterious deaths in the town ("Looks like some kind of wild animal tried to tear her throat out"). Cross has a suave-but-menacing manner ) so transparent that it wouldn't fool the family cat, and his tortured pleas for sympathy are unconvincing. "I cannot help myself!" he cries at one point. Excuses, excuses...