Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Microsoft of the genetically modified food industry, Monsanto, is under attack yet again - and, as in the case of the Seattle monolith, its opponents are charging monopoly. Tuesday, lawyers for six farmers filed a class action suit against the seed giant, charging Monsanto with conspiring to control the world's vast seed trade. The suit also claims Monsanto and other companies rush their products to market without testing them adequately for safety. While Monsanto's genetic-engineering business has been the target of many attacks over the past several years, particularly in Europe, Tuesday's suit marks a new tack...
...alleged terrorists linked with Osama Bin Laden in Jordan Wednesday may spell trouble for Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement. The group, which included Jordanians, an Iraqi and an Algerian, was reportedly trained in Bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan, and had some nasty plans for the New Year - to attack U.S. and Israeli targets in Jordan. The revelations follow Washington's warning to the Taliban on Tuesday that they would be held responsible for any Bin Laden attacks on U.S. targets. The Taliban continues to harbor the terrorist mastermind, despite U.N. sanctions and constant U.S. pressure to expel...
...Crimson must now find a way to produce points and attack the boards in Clemente's absence. Against Colgate, they shot just 32.2 percent from the field and committed 27 turnovers...
...Barak holds a trump card: Israel continues to pay a heavy price in human life for its occupation of southern Lebanon, and the call for Israeli withdrawal is overwhelmingly popular across party lines. But the only way out is a deal in which Israel's borders are protected from attack by Hezbollah guerrillas - a guarantee that only Syria, as the de facto military power in Lebanon, could credibly offer. And Syria has made recovering the Golan the price of peace in Lebanon...
...dismissed as far-fetched by Panamanians and most U.S. analysts, the White House is clearly taking no chances with Al Gore's election year looming. Indeed, Clinton appears to be more willing to sacrifice some Panamanian goodwill by snubbing the ceremony than to provide visuals for a Buchanan attack ad by showing up. Hey, Jimmy Carter made this deal, let him take the heat...