Word: blew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sachs: We blew it in the past two years, when there were reformers in key positions. We withheld aid without realizing that it could have given them tremendous tactical support. We should continue grass-roots programs like student exchanges and technical assistance. But the large-scale aid, which should have been given before, is now likely to be wasted...
...Pioneer Pacific College, a small vocational school outside Portland. It was here that the players converged: Eckardt, the bodyguard who allegedly helped hatch the plot; Eugene Saunders, the young born-again pastor to whom Eckardt confessed, with a frightening telltale tape; and Gary Crowe, the private detective who ultimately blew the lid off the story...
...several pounds of dynamite surrounded by shrapnel. One bomb killed Eleanor Fowler, 56, in West Valley, near Buffalo. Another was opened by her husband Robert, 38, at his job in an armored-car garage in nearby Cheektowaga; it killed him and a co-worker. A third blew up Lazore-Lanza and her friend; she was Eleanor Fowler's daughter from an earlier marriage. And on the St. Regis Indian Reservation near the state's northern tip, an exploding package lacerated the legs of Lazore-Lanza's uncle, William Lazore. Identical parcels were sent to the Fowlers' daughter Lucille...
...State, triples the sentence of a violent felon convicted for the third time, effectively jailing him for a minimum of 25 years. Says its coordinator, Chuck Cavalier: "We had tremendous support before the Klaas case, but ((since Davis was captured)) our 800 number has got so many calls we blew out the voice-mail systems." (Not everybody is signing up, however. State assemblyman John Burton notes, "I don't think it's a good idea to load up the wagon with criminals that are felons . . . but who are not grave threats to individual safety...
...these are not the 1960s, and in recent years NASA's reputation has plummeted faster than a burned-out rocket booster. Ever since the Challenger blew up less than two minutes after liftoff in January 1986, killing all seven astronauts aboard, the agency has seemed lost in space. Shuttle launches have been delayed by mechanical glitches more often than not. Satellites have mysteriously stopped transmitting while in orbit. Space probes have broken down en route to Jupiter and Mars. Along with the setbacks came a crisis in the spirit of space adventure -- a loss of vision and will to probe...