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...nonetheless troubling that Iraq is finding ways to evade the sanctions regime that has been in place." Secretary of State Warren Christopher said the State Department would look into the news report to "see if we can''t make the embargo, which has been really quite effective, even more airtight...
Asthma cases and deaths in the U.S. jumped by an alarming two-fifths from 1982 to 1992, and air pollution, airtight homes and windowless offices may aggravate the condition, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released today. During the ten-year period, the rate of asthma rose by 42 percent (from 34.7 to 49.4 sufferers per thousand people), while the death rate for asthmatics rose by 40 percent (3,154 deaths to 5,106) over roughly the same period. About 13 million Americans (one out of twenty people) suffer from asthma, an inflammation...
...just admissible; it was broadcast live. Of course he did it -- he had beaten her before, he was high on coke, he had gone into a jealous rage; of course he didn't do it -- he loved her too much, he was incapable of such savagery, he had an airtight alibi. Maybe he could have done it, but surely he would have been smarter, hired someone else and not left a trail behind...
...blockade has proved anything but airtight. An estimated 10,000 Haitians cross the Dominican border each day to buy fuel, which they lug back in plastic jugs or pulley across ravines. At the Malpasse border crossing east of the capital, wooden fishing boats openly ply barrels of illegal gasoline and diesel from an open-air depot on the Dominican side of the island...
...past few years have not been kind to the NSA. Not only has its cover been blown, but so has its monopoly on encryption technology. As computers -- the engines of modern cryptography -- have proliferated, so have ever more powerful encryption algorithms. Telephones that offered nearly airtight privacy protection began to appear on the market, and in January U.S. computermakers said they were ready to adopt a new encryption standard so robust that even the NSA couldn't crack...