Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene is so horribly familiar. A sunny afternoon. Shoppers crowding a city street. Then the deadly blast of a bomb, carnage and chaos. Neither the former peacemaking Labor government nor the present security-minded Likud government has figured out a way to stop...
...carrying attache cases. At 1:10 p.m., positioned 100 ft. apart and apparently in eye contact, one of them, standing in a covered lane, detonated a lethal parcel containing about 20 lbs. of TNT packed with rusty screws and nails. Three seconds later, the second man exploded his suitcase bomb along an open street crammed with lunchtime shoppers. "This is madness," cried an anguished onlooker amid the tangle of human limbs, blackened flesh, crushed fruit and building rubble. The blasts also blew away the lower portions of the bombers' bodies, leaving their still unidentified faces gruesomely intact...
BOSTON: MacWorld bomb shell? Steve Jobs, Apple's not-chairman, mentioned in the closer on his address this morning, that, oh yes, by the way, Microsoft is going to be investing $150 million in the troubled Cupertino company. (sound of the Macintosh faithful fainting...) What does Bill Gates get for his money? A stock that at 19 3/4 is a relative bargain in today's hyper bull market. More important, keeping Apple afloat allows Gates to continue to use the alternative to Windows as his hole card in federal antitrust investigations. But looking down the long road ahead, does Bill...
BOSTON, Mass. : MacWorld bomb shell? Steve Jobs, Apple's not-chairman, mentioned in the closer on his opening address this morning, that, oh yes, by the way, Microsoft is going to be investing $150 million in the troubled Cupertino company. What does Bill Gates get for his money? A stock that at 19 3/4 is a relative bargain in today's hyper bull market. More important, keeping Apple afloat allows Gates to continue to use the alternative to Windows as his hole card in federal antitrust investigations. But looking down the long road ahead, does Bill have deeper designs...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As if the wrath of Rudy and a terrorist bomb plot weren't creating enough heat for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, a federal advisory panel now wants to abolish the troubled agency, dividing its duties between the State and Justice departments. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani continues to escalate his feud with the INS over its release of a Palestinian asylum-seeker who last week was charged with plotting a terrorist bombing in Brooklyn. Police sources say evidence includes a note threatening a series of attacks on American and Jewish interests. Meanwhile, Congress is embracing...