Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...clearest signals came in the form of half a dozen trial balloons floated by Iraq to Washington through back-door intermediaries. Saddam has publicly denied supporting any of these initiatives, though Bush Administration officials have confirmed that at least some of them came from Iraq's Foreign Ministry. The most recent feelers added up to an offer of withdrawal from Kuwait and release of all foreign nationals in return for several concessions: federation or some other close association between Kuwait and Iraq; guaranteed Iraqi access to the Kuwaiti islands of Bubiyan and Warbah, which block most of Iraq's scant...
...Denmark, and thus as a teenager he was in danger of being drafted into the Kaiser's army. No thanks. His folks scraped together enough money to buy him passage to the U.S. So say the family stories, a bit hazy in parts, like everyone's family stories, though the windowsill and the initials were still there a century later...
...worms. Now a friendly fellow who is launching a $15,000 bass boat, complete with electronic fish-finder, says the water is a funny color near the dead steel factory. But Ellsworth's houses and churches are painted, and yards are mowed. The surrounding dairy farms seem prosperous, though fewer farmers run bigger spreads and here and there old farmhouses sag blind and empty. A girls' softball team looks sharp in maroon uniforms as the players warm up for a game...
...About what?" I asked Randy, who is not someone with a lot of money -- well, not someone with any money, really -- and who, though highly talented in other ways, has absolutely no understanding of the financial markets. I once lent him some money -- to eat, as I understood it -- and found out later that he used it to buy options on a stock someone had told him about. Needless to say, the options expired worthless...
Large animals can be either killed or removed, but that sometimes causes problems of another sort: a burro-shooting program at the Grand Canyon had to be halted after a public outcry. In Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, though, a population of 15,000 or so feral goats was reduced to only 4, and in the Smokies the wild boar population has been pared. Smaller animals are much harder to fight, and plants harder still. Herbicides kill too indiscriminately, and bringing in new exotic species to control the old is demonstrably dangerous. Rangers often have to resort to chopping down...