Word: arsenale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam Hussein had threatened on numerous occasions that he would destroy half of Israel with his arsenal of chemical weapons, and worse...
...methods, researchers have swapped their mice for a procedure that they hope will detect a drug's potency not only against leukemia but also in scores of different types of cancer cells. The new effort, which is being employed at the Developmental Therapeutics Program in Frederick, Md., uses an arsenal of automated devices and computers to test potential cancer-fighting drugs on real human cancer cells, grown in laboratories, rather than on mice. This enables scientists to test more than 300 chemicals a week. Many of these drugs had failed in the past when tested on mice, but the researchers...
...fight inflation, the Bank of Japan is using the only weapon in its arsenal: higher interest rates. A credit squeeze seems likely. John Hickling, portfolio manager of Fidelity Investments' Pacific Basin Fund, thinks the liquidity drought has arrived. Since nothing spooks stock-market investors like the prospect of rising interest rates and a credit crunch, Japanese shareholders have been cleaning out their portfolios, driving the Nikkei average on the Tokyo exchange down more than 30% from its late December high...
...much more likely, though, that Saddam's government was accurate in warning the U.S. that taking it on would not be "like Panama and Grenada." His military arsenal is the largest in the Arab world and is capable of doing extensive damage. At sea, Saddam's modern, Soviet-built magnetic mines are difficult to detect and could be a major menace...
...Saddam, the end of the cold war, the breakup of the Soviet empire and America's re-evaluation of its military spending offered a safe opening for his claims of hegemony. He has the army, the arsenal and the audacity to pursue his grand ambition to rule the region -- or rock the world. In effect, Saddam has leveled a brazen challenge: Stop me if you can. Last weekend one of his spokesmen snarled that if anyone moved against Iraqi forces, Baghdad would "chop off his arm from the shoulder...