Word: all-out
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rubin question, of course, is not meant literally. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton, is easily found in his chairman's office at Citigroup, the banking colossus. Fat lot of good that does us. The Bush Administration faces an all-out market crisis and can offer only wavering reassurances from the untested Paul O'Neill, the former Alcoa boss and current Treasury Secretary. And then there's Bush himself, whom no one sees as supremely tuned to Wall Street worries...
...which contained around 60 kg of explosives, had been left in the city's airport car park. Popular tourist destinations were on alert after suspected ETA member Olaia Castresana blew herself up as she handled explosives in the Mediterranean resort of Torrevieja. MACEDONIA Back from the Brink Dangerously close to all-out war, the two sides in the Macedonian conflict gave way to persuasion and declared another cease-fire. Under pressure from international mediators, rebel ethnic Albanian fighters, who had occupied the area around Tetovo, north of the capital Skopje, began to withdraw as Albanian politicians agreed to meet government...
...even for the notoriously hawkish Sharon, the options are limited. Indeed, the Israeli prime minister finds himself in the unusual position of having to restrain hawks in his cabinet and security forces (as well as his challenger for the party leadership, Benjamin Netanyahu) who are urging an all-out offensive designed to destroy the Palestinian Authority and force the PLO leadership back into exile. Sharon knows this would seriously jeopardize Israel's international position, and could even irrevocably destabilize its relations with its Arab neighbors. And the result would simply be to clear the playing field of those Palestinian leaders...
Trapping Benjamin and Ramon is still almost impossible to imagine, short of all-out war. Mexican authorities, however, "know where the brothers are," insists Jesus Blancornelas, 65, editor of the Tijuana weekly Zeta. Because of his reporting on the cartel--which included publishing letters from mothers of Ramon's victims calling Ramon a coward--Blancornelas was shot four times in broad daylight in 1997 by a group that included Ramon's main hitman, David Barron Corona (a San Diego gang member who was himself killed by a stray bullet between the eyes during the botched assault). "If the will...
...former Soviet dissident, by virtue of leading Israel's largest Russian immigrant party, has become something of a political kingmaker in the Jewish State and now serves as housing minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. And, he says, that cabinet was on the brink of launching an all-out war on Yasser Arafat's security forces last weekend, when foreign intervention persuaded them to hold...