Sentences with phrase «gulf war»

Then, as the data show, crude prices staged a mini bull market in the last week of August, when the WTI rose more than 25 percent in its fastest three - day advance since the first Gulf War in 1990.

«Toxic exposures caused illness in Gulf War veterans, new report says.»

In a follow up study to a breaking news story that found evidence linking illnesses in Persian Gulf War Veterans to exposure to certain chemicals, a group of rese... More...

For military purposes, the system offers a new platform for the study of Gulf War illness, traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Evidence also continues to point to immunological effects of Gulf War illness.»

It was accepted as common ground that the charterer would have terminated the charter following the outbreak of the second Gulf War on 20 March 2003.

The adorable creatures were placed here during the First Gulf War as insurance in case local farms needed to be repopulated later on.

Gulf veterans such as Rokke believe exposure to this DU is one of the causes of Gulf War Syndrome, the unexplained illness or group of illnesses that has afflicted thousands of soldiers since the war.

After a study last year on Gulf War veterans showed a certain allele may prevent brain atrophy, University researchers wanted to extend the research to the general population.

These findings resemble those reported for Gulf War veterans, suggesting that the cognitive problems suffered by veterans may be similar, even if their war experiences are not.

Mrs. Lorenzo is currently retired from the firm as she has been diagnosed with Gulf War Syndrome and is a disabled Army Veteran.

Today, many are still suffering from Gulf War Illness, a mysterious, multi-symptom disease that experts believe is linked to organophosphate nerve agents sarin and cyclosarin.

Since the Korean War right through the Persian Gulf War I, the death rate for a soldier wounded in the battlefield has been about 25 percent.

I'm also an Iraqi Freedom / Enduring Freedom war veteran as well as 1st Gulf War vet.

The study looked at how the various exposures experienced by Gulf War veterans might have changed the microbiome.

«Khamisiyah Plume» linked to brain and memory effects in Gulf War vets.»

«No comprehensive information has been published on the mortality experience of U.S. Gulf War era veterans after the year 2000,» according to the report.

A declassified memo after the first Gulf War shows Colin Powell's three - page response to criticism of defense policy — reduced to letterhead, a paragraph of polite evasion, blocks of magic marker, and an official signature.

The film takes place in the early days of the second Gulf War when a group of soldiers are stationed in Iraq to repair a bomb - damaged water pumping station.

The recent Gulf war with Iraq is a clear indication of claiming American supremacy over against weaker countries.

These «pluripotent cell lines» will be especially groundbreaking for studying Gulf War Illness, because they preserve the genetic and possibly epigenetic factors specific to disease susceptibility.

It seems unlikely to me, what with ISAF in Afghanistan having troops from nearly every EU country, and in Gulf War II not quite as many, but a good number of them, nonetheless.

Twenty years of scientific research has traced these symptoms to Gulf War chemical exposures and the drugs taken during deployment that were meant to prevent or counteract these exposures.

Not all is happy, however, as the Persian Gulf War begins in August when Iraqi troops invade Kuwait and Margaret Thatcher resigns as the British Prime Minister in November.

He is one of the «Three Kings» in David O. Russell's Gulf War film alongside George Clooney and Ice Cube.

As the fighting in the Persian Gulf war came to a swift end last week, American pupils and educators reacted with a mix of relief, caution, and jubilation.

And your silly statement that there was little threat by Islamic extremism prior to the first gulf war represents either a profound ignorance of history or a deliberate attempt to deceive.

It brilliantly investigates, from every angle, the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, and the gripping conclusion it comes to is that Timothy McVeigh, the 27 - year - old Gulf War veteran who killed 168 people that day, wasn't «crazy» so much as he was the disturbed quintessence of the new right wing.

His community service project was to honor veterans by creating a perennial garden and adding two benches to overlook the future Gulf War Veterans Memorial -LSB-...]

The content of the air had no impact on healthy subjects, but for sick Gulf War veterans, it was a different story.

These problems came to be called Gulf War syndrome or illness during the 1990s.

Yale University psychiatrist Steven Southwick surveyed Gulf War veterans first one month and then two years after experiencing traumatic events.

Annette and her husband Harvey Whittemore, who has worked as a high - profile attorney for the gaming industry and a major real estate developer, started WPI to help find causes and treatments for CFS and other neuroimmune diseases like Gulf War syndrome and fibromyalgia.

«The conclusions of the 2008 RAC report had a substantial impact on scientific and clinical thinking about Gulf War illness, as well as the public acceptance of this disorder,» said White.

My Name is Tony i am a X U.S. Navy Petty Officer / CM3 SeaBee and a Current Gulf War Era Veteran i am 50 yrs old i am Divorced and have no children i live alone in my own home i have not dated anyone or had a girlfriend in 4 yrs now i stay at home most the time i don't go out to bars i don't meet...

We have home - grown militants, some of whom do not look at all ethnic, as witness Timothy McVeigh, a decorated Gulf War Vet who bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Afghanistan involved the Taliban failing to hand over Bin Laden, and the first gulf war involved Iraq failing to withdraw from Kuwait.

I believe that military force is sometimes necessary - I supported Gulf War I and the invasion of Afghanistan.

Many Gulf War veterans, Kroot included, suffer from symptoms of exertional fatigue, such as pain or a high heart rate after exercise.

Veterans who were deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan were more likely to have MSI than nondeployed personnel — but their risk was still not as high as in deployed Gulf War veterans.

Also related is McVeigh's personal history as a bully - hating, gun - loving kid in upstate New York who thought he'd found a home in the Army until a disillusioning tour of duty in the first Gulf War led to a sour experience washing out of the Army's Ranger School.

Troops bringing the American flag back to Iraq in 2003 or deploying to Afghanistan in the same time period received just a little more than their Persian Gulf War predecessors, with $ 1,064.70 for soldiers with less than four months of service and $ 1,150.80 for the seasoned veterans with four months or more under their belts.

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and the subsequent Gulf War, further dampened things.

And yet Gulf War II - era vets still face higher unemployment rates than the general population — 15.5 % for female vets, 9.2 % for male vets.

Gun - toting Gulf War veteran Pastor Jerome Jeffries embodies a kinder take.

Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War edited by David E. DeCosse Doubleday, 132 pages, $ 15 The views of Stanley Hauerwas and George Weigel on the question posed by the title are familiar to readers of this journal.

In 1990, shortly before the first Gulf War between the U.S. and Iraq, he flew to Baghdad to speak with Saddam Hussein to secure the release of 15 U.S. hostages.

Soreq speculates that if similar long - term drops occur in humans, the lack of acetylcholine may cause cognitive impairment such as that seen in post-traumatic stress disorder and possibly Gulf War Syndrome.