Word: blows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time Iraq stunned the world with its invasion of Kuwait, Gasior was about ready to blow the whistle on her former employer. She had read about the BNL scandal and remembered a transaction at Kennametal that involved carbide tools and a BNL letter of credit. Appalled at the thought that U.S. companies had helped provide Saddam with the equipment to wage war, Gasior and another Kennametal employee took their suspicions to Justice officials in Philadelphia % in December 1990. "They listened carefully until we got to the part about the BNL letter of credit," Gasior says. "Then they stood up, thanked...
Challenge means loss. (A "physically challenged" person is one who used to be called "disabled" or "handicapped" -- to wit, one who has been dealt a bad blow by circumstance. To give him this more friendly sounding title is an attempt to affirm possibility on his behalf -- in other words, to be in denial...
...Food and Drug Administration has struck a blow for the tobacco-addicted. It will ban almost all over-the-counter stop-smoking aids; they don't work...
...ever worry that you're the South African Gorbachev and that the winds you unleash will blow you aside...
...Kennedy says. "I really do feel this huge burden and I felt this real burden coming into Harvard just to maximize every minute and to just make every minute count, because, you know, I was the first in so many generations to have this chance...I just couldn't blow...