Word: blasted
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...entering the talks himself, Bush hoped to pressure both sides to forge an agreement in time to announce it in a nationally televised address on Tuesday night. Failing that, he may use the speech either to blast those he blames for the impasse or to make a dramatic offer to break the deadlock. Not even his closest advisers could say which option Bush would take...
...inappropriate after Iraq invaded Kuwait. Not until Budget Director Richard Darman and Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady were out of town three weeks ago did Sununu get his way. He persuaded the President to interrupt his vacation -- and his direction of the U.S. response to Saddam's aggression -- to blast the Democrats for the impasse. That awkwardly timed sally appeared to embarrass Bush. He concluded his finger-pointing speech by promising to become "more statesmanlike and try to resolve this national problem...
...killed Deutsche Bank chief executive Alfred Herrhausen, a personal adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, by exploding a bomb along a street as Herrhausen's armored Mercedes-Benz 500SE limousine passed by. Antiterrorist expert Neusel escaped that fate only because his chauffeur was on holiday: Neusel was driving and the blast ripped through the passenger side...
Audacious in the face of this, the new Ms. has taken the earliest opportunity to blast the advertisers that had long boycotted its pages. Founding editor Gloria Steinem writes that Revlon decided not to advertise with Ms. in 1980 because a cover photo portrayed Soviet feminists without makeup. Not only that, says Steinem, Estee Lauder largely ignored Ms. because the magazine failed to mesh with Lauder's efforts to peddle a "kept-woman mentality." Ms. also presents an apologetic portfolio of ads it did run -- and wishes it hadn...
Despite the warning, an Iraq-Kuwait war is considered unlikely. U.S. officials believe Saddam's verbal blast is part of his campaign to dominate the Arab world and a hard-nosed tactic to force other oil producers to back Iraq when OPEC ministers hold their biannual summit this week in Geneva. Still, officials do not dismiss the possibility that Saddam might back his words with action...