Word: arms
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...Wolaytas, the Anuaks and Nuers, and the Oromos and Tigreans. Meles could try to pacify them all by force. Instead, he has approached tribal elders to find less drastic compromises. In the case of the Afars, for instance, he has asked the elders to designate which tribesmen should be armed. "To disarm them all is unacceptable to the Afars," Meles explains. "So the choice is to disarm the irrational elements and arm the rational elements." By this risky equation, he is calculating that if only the most cool-headed are armed, perhaps they will choose not to use their weapons...
...Council, an insidious, sugared, Madison-Avenue-styled voice of the federal government arm-in-arm with corporate America, runs campaigns encouraging us to volunteer, saying that if everyone just volunteered five hours a week, we'd solve everything, and still be home for dinner...
Beth L. Pinsker '93 can't legally gamble, but she can balance six plates of pancakes on one arm...
Mere chance seemed to determine who lived and who died. At one instant, the killer spared a mother and child, barking at her to get the youngster "out of here." An elderly woman put her arm around her husband, who had been wounded. As the killer approached her, she looked up, then bowed her head, and he shot her. The gunman faced down another patron, Sam Wink, but when a woman nearby tried to race off, he was distracted and fired at her, allowing Wink to flee. "It just seemed like slow motion, and he shot forever," Wink recalled...
...Harken's few profitable ventures was its high-flying commodities trading arm. But suddenly in 1989 the division racked up a $17 million loss, prompting Quasha to shut down the operation. Insiders say the oil traders never had careful supervision, systematic controls or enough money in the bank to ride out a downturn...