Word: blowingly
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...used in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Agents also discovered a videotape in which one of the Vipers gives a guided tour of nearby Federal Government buildings--the FBI, the IRS, the ATF, the Immigration and Naturalization Service--along with detailed instructions on how to blow each of them...
...month, the U.S. unsuccessfully pressured members of the Colombian congress to find Samper guilty of that charge. "When the Congress absolved Samper, the U.S. had several weapons in its arsenal, one of which was revoking his visa," says TIME Mexico City bureau chief Laura Lopez. "It is a psychological blow, but Samper has been fighting ever since he was elected, so he was probably braced for it." The U.S. maintains that the Samper government will not cooperate with its anti-drug efforts, particularly because he has refused to extradite four alleged Cali cartel leaders. His defense: Colombia's constitution forbids...
...political powerhouse, she can come across as surprisingly insecure. With strangers, her eyes seek out approval. Her charm is palpable, her graciousness as carefully applied as her glue-gun red lipstick. Yet when a journalist prepares to ask her a question, she tenses up as though waiting for a blow. Her answers are often so resolutely bland as to suggest a terror of revealing anything human. Her relentless and self-confessed perfectionism seems to hide a fear of being perceived as something less than the sum of her resume. Why does a woman who has been Secretary of Transportation...
WASHINGTON: In a devastating blow that could cost the government billions of dollars in damages, the Supreme Court has ruled that federal authorities breached an agreement with savings and loans in 1989 by changing an accounting rule, throwing many of them into serious financial trouble. Because the decision affects about 100 similar cases, taxpayers may end up paying more than $10 billion in damages, on top of the $200 billion it has already cost to clean up the S&L disaster. "The government is paying the price for changing the rules in the middle of the game," says TIME...
...Ghali's chances of winning another term as U.N. Secretary General are receding. France, China and Russia, members of the powerful Security Council, strongly support Boutros-Ghali, but the U.S. confirmed Thursday that it would use its Council veto if the Egyptian were re-elected. Seeking to soften the blow, the Clinton Administration had offered Boutros-Ghali a one-year extension of his term. The Secretretary General turned it down. "The Clinton Administration feels that Boutros-Ghali has not done a good job reorganizing and streamlining the organization," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "He has proved...