Word: blows
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Some retailers are benefiting from overheated fears. Panicky consumers have rushed to military-surplus stores to buy gas masks. Many people want the masks for protection in case terrorists blow up chemical plants and oil refineries near them. Richard Muerdter, owner of the Eagle Army & Navy store in Louisville, says one frightened woman told him: "They're going to send terrorists over here to gas all of us." Some stores reported calls from anxious customers who wanted to know if Iraq's Scud missiles (top range: 560 miles) could reach the U.S. mainland. From California to Western Europe, there were...
What is certain is that the oil spill has delivered a devastating blow to the ecology of the Persian Gulf. "Massive oil spills could turn this body of water into a virtual dead sea," says Brent Blackwelder, vice president of Friends of the Earth. Hundreds of oil-soaked marine birds are already washing up on the shores of northern Saudi Arabia...
...frisked and kept waiting for hours. The questions, says Boston attorney Susan Akram, are mostly insulting. "Police explain they are interrogating people for their own protection. Arab Americans feel an obligation to respond. Then the questions land. 'Do you know any terrorists? Do you know anybody who wants to blow up a federal building...
...liberal fence straddlers, who had stuck by the Soviet President as the last bulwark against the reactionaries. The mass defection of prominent politicians, economists, writers, artists, actors and scientists from the Gorbachev camp in the last two weeks and their alignment with the democratic movement has struck a telling blow at the moral authority of the Kremlin...
...cuts will likely impact other Massachusetts schools more seriously than Harvard, since Harvard can insulate the blow through its extensive fundraising ability and its $5 billion endowment...