Word: blows
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...idea, officials said, was not to provoke one major showdown, but to gradually increase the pressure. Even as the debate in Washington progressed, the Hostage Rescue Team was sending in Abrams tanks to close in on the compound, closer and closer. Anything lighter, Koresh had threatened to blow "40 feet in the air." Then the FBI began removing the fence. "Everyone on scene said that's the most provocative thing we can do," says an official. "If we touch that fence, we stand a chance that there will be some kind of violent response. So we thought long and hard...
...three blacks for the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny will be under way. The policemen could be imprisoned for 10 years. But if they get off with light sentences, and the Denny trial results in convictions and severe punishment for the blacks, the city -- and others -- could blow again. The Koon-Powell verdict has not so much purchased racial peace as averted -- for how long no one can tell -- more bloodshed, violence and animosity. But that is a great deal better than the alternative...
Such public scrutiny follows a flood of mishaps and miscues that have seriously hurt the industry's back-to-nature image. The first blow came in 1990, when Source Perrier recalled 160 million bottles of its mineral water worldwide after traces of benzene were found in some samples. Although the drink is back in stores, Perrier has still not fully recovered from the disaster. The brand's market share -- 2% of all bottled-water sales -- is half what it was before the benzene scare. Bottlers suffered another jolt in 1991, when the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee conducted...
...been slain for the word of God," which to Koresh might seem an obvious reference to the Feb. 28 gun battle. The breaking of the sixth seal produces an earthquake, and Koresh has predicted one soon in the Waco area. Behind the seventh seal are seven angels who blow successively on trumpets, signaling all manner of calamities: a rain of hail, fire and blood; locusts arising from a bottomless pit to bite men, who wish for death to end their torment. Koresh, in a letter dictated to DeGuerin last Wednesday, said his writing "will cause the winds...
...result of allegations that hsn chairman Roy Speer and others received improper payments from the company's suppliers, hsn is facing several Florida lawsuits and a federal grand jury investigation in Tampa. In addition, an hsn executive who threatened to blow the whistle on his colleagues was allegedly fired. Liberty Media, which owns a controlling interest in the firm, had planned to acquire the remaining shares but has withdrawn its offer as a result of the alleged kickbacks...