Word: fronted
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...case of Vietnam, it took more than a decade and the loss of 58,000 American lives before domestic support collapsed. The Iraq crisis is only 4 1/ 2 months old, and there has not been a single U.S. combat death. Yet some sectors of the home front are already in the throes of a full-scale antiwar movement. Bush's attempt to fill the conceptual vacuum left by the end of the cold war with talk about a new world order apparently works better in the United Nations than in the United States...
...Arnold gets four stars. His pictures can use a strong premise, but they don't need high-priced supporting players; his aura is enough. (Quick, name the second-billed actor of The Terminator, Commando, Predator or Total Recall.) He also has the respect -- maybe even the fear -- of the front-office boys, because he gets involved in every aspect of production and promotion...
...border. Last week Pennsylvania's Hershey Foods launched an all-out offensive against the candy-killing climate of the Middle East. Its secret weapon: 144,000 Desert Bars. Designed to meet the Army's demand for "heat-resistant" milk chocolate, the Desert Bar approximates the flavor of its home-front cousins, while standing up to temperatures of well over 100 degrees without turning into chocolate syrup. Hershey, which produced its first heat-resistant chocolates for the Army in 1937, refuses to divulge the desert-defying processes behind its latest creation...
...Video-display terminals. People spend whole workdays close to computer screens. The should stay 75 cm (30 in.) from the front and 90cm (3 ft.) from the sides and back. The same rule applies...
...Looters constantly prowled the building. Most of the 450 apartments had been vacated in a hurry and were still full of household goods. It was like a big store. To hear a sudden pounding on the front door was terrifying. We had towels stuffed along the door bottoms to help muffle inside sounds. And we laid small rugs in front of the doors to let us tiptoe close and look out through glass peepholes. We taped over the peepholes. In each tape we made a tiny opening with a pin, like a camera, so we could see out but remain...