Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Baghdad Military Academy, he was rejected for poor grades. It was a devastating blow, instilling, say Israeli analysts, an obsession with the use of military force. Though Saddam now likes to parade around in self-designed military uniforms, it was only after he came to power that he could make himself a full general...
While fighting the Iranians, Saddam was also waging war against the rebellious Kurds, who make up about 19% of Iraq's population. There too he relied on poison gas, not against invading soldiers but against civilians, women and children. It took eight years for the gulf war to end in a stalemate, with a loss of an estimated 75,000 to 150,000 Iraqi lives and the country's economy in ruins. To rebuild from the wreckage, Saddam needed more oil revenues, and when Kuwait interfered with his plans, he reached -- as ever -- for his pistol...
...deeply concerned" by the disclosures, and saying that "journalists who are paid by the Israeli government, directly or indirectly, are discrediting the entire press corps . . . ((B))y accepting payments from the Israeli government ((they)) are taking sides in a story they are covering . . ." The whole episode is sure to make it harder for honest reporters to chronicle the continuing Israeli- Palestinian conflict...
...many inside and outside the Post, Downie's avowed attempt to make the paper more credible and authoritative has also made it duller and more predictable, less willing to take on the powerful and needle the pretentious. "There was a time at the Post when its creative talents were pushed to move forward," says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. "That time has passed." Concedes Bradlee: "We're less concerned with taking risks now that we're successful and 25 years older. There's a certain conservatism that...
...feeling was that having him permanently removed from the management of the Yankees would be a very good result," Vincent explained afterward in his understated, lawyerly fashion. "And the only way to get it was to propose it. I couldn't make that part of the sanction because I can't order him to become a limited partner." Instead the commissioner devised his pick-off play, designed to snare Steinbrenner into voluntarily giving up his majority (55%) control of the Yankees...