Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third setback for the government, the Supreme Court issued a ruling highly critical of Shin Bet, the domestic security service that only six months earlier had been cited for improprieties in the deaths of two Palestinian bus hijackers. The court ordered former Lieutenant Azat Napso, 32, released immediately from prison, where he had spent 7 1/2 years on espionage and treason charges that were brought by Shin Bet but later found to be unsubstantiated. The conviction was overturned because the agency employed illegal interrogation methods and lied about them to the military courts that originally tried Napso. Attorney General Yosef...
Investors who buy commodity-futures contracts bet on whether the price of such staples as silver and soybeans will rise or fall. Now they can earn truly heady rewards from wine futures...
...advanced version is the Excalibur, already being tested, which boosts the X rays produced by a nuclear explosion. The idea is to use the X rays to power lasers, which would then be targeted at enemy missiles as they fly through space. Taylor argues that microwaves are a better bet for enhancement. Microwaves -- the same kind of electromagnetic emissions that cook TV dinners -- have a longer wavelength than X rays and can scramble electrical systems (hence the warnings to wearers of the early, unshielded heart pacemakers to stay away from some microwave ovens). Unlike X rays, microwaves can penetrate...
Babbitt's status as an obscure ex-Governor and outsider reminds the galleries of Jimmy Carter's standing in the spring of 1975. Carter -- like Babbitt, Gephardt and most of the others today -- bet everything on Iowa and rode that success through New Hampshire. The 1988 race resembles the one in 1976 in a number of ways. But this time the field is so splintered that Iowa and New Hampshire may produce a clutch of losers without a clear pair of one- two winners...
Although the Navy may lack hard evidence against the Marines, one active participant says, "The U.S. is sure enough of the facts to bet close to $100 million on it." That is how much the Pentagon, State Department, CIA and % National Security Agency will request from Congress to replace the compromised communications facilities and pursue other corrective measures. Meanwhile, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence recommended by a 15-to-0 vote to tear down the bug-riddled chancery at the new U.S. embassy in Moscow. Said Committee Chairman David Boren: "Demolish that building while we still can." Building...