Word: attacksã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...economic slowdown in the United States following the attacks??in conjunction with economic downturns in Japan and Europe—has caused foreign investors to withdraw money from the Latin American economy, Gaviria said...
After learning the student’s history of travel to the U.S. and academic commitments, the student said, the investigator asked him if he knew “any of the people that you’ve seen in the papers recently who were involved with these attacks?? and asked him if he was aware of any plans for future attacks...
...idea of the pharmaceutical industry profiting off of a biological attack. But pharmaceutical development is immensely expensive, and the govenment cannot create effective medicines by fiat. Until the U.S. has sufficient government-funded research to combat bioweapons effectively, ignoring patents outright will only increase the danger from future attacks??attacks for which drugs will not be developed...
...President Bush rests his hopes on the Office of Homeland Security to restore our tattered peace of mind, its creation only adds to public uncertainty. The mission charged to it is one that needs to be filled: to “secure the United States from terrorist threats or attacks?? by bringing the 40 or so agencies responsible for domestic safety into close cooperation. But in light of the immediate terrorist threat, nobody knows exactly how the new Office or its cabinet-level director, former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, plan to carry out that mission...
...time, of course, the nation cannot take preparations for biological warfare to extremes. America depends on its mail system for everything from daily business transactions to casual correspondence between friends; abandoning the mails, hoarding supplies of antibiotics or reverting to hysteria in any form would only add to the attacks?? impact. Many of the envelopes tested for anthrax have been shown to be hoaxes, which do the perpetrators a favor by multiplying the fear their attacks create...