Word: bomb
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...conditions of many Third World countries is, if anything, more parlous. Most debtors have fallen victim to a general sluggishness in the world economy, which has reduced their export income and thus their ability to pay. "Lack of economic growth in the U.S. and abroad is the real time bomb," says John Heimann, vice chairman of Merrill Lynch's Capital Markets Group...
...aesthetic and ichthyological achievement of Blues should not be minimized. John Hersey, previously noted for elaborations of such historic themes as World War II (A Bell for Adano), the Holocaust (The Wall) and the atom bomb (Hiroshima), has chosen the dialogue form for what seems a lighter topic: the pursuit of bluefish off Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. But as the book's insatiably curious Stranger talks informally with the knowledgeable Fisherman, a cascade of lore and documents, poetry and tragedy is netted along with the glistening quarry...
...public life. By most accounts, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 52, the pragmatic Speaker of the Parliament, is the leading candidate to take over. At this point, it is unclear what impact his alleged role in the U.S.-Iran arms deal will have on the succession. "It's a time bomb ticking away," says one diplomat. While Iran's council of experts designated Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, 64, the senior cleric from Qum, as the formal successor, Khomeini has yet to approve the recommendation. Western diplomats say Rafsanjani has the political ability to outmaneuver Montazeri. Regardless of who the next Iranian...
...Still, that is a marked improvement over the 158 killings reported during the 1986 presidential campaign, which precipitated Marcos' ouster. This year's death toll might have been higher if police had not disarmed an incendiary device in a toilet of the Comelec building last week. Police said the bomb, thought to have been planted by G.A.D. supporters, could have destroyed the three-story structure...
McFarlane depicts Reagan as a hands- on leader when it came to the contras. -- Scientists design a better bomb...