Word: breach
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...could, in theory, bring down an aircraft, but Columbia was well beyond a missile's altitude limit at the time the ship disintegrated. The idea that an explosive could have been smuggled aboard got no serious attention. It would be almost impossible for even the most committed terrorist to breach NASA security, all the more so with the heightened protection thrown up around a ship carrying an Israeli astronaut celebrated for having participated in the attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor...
Indictment on child pornography charges. Redefining the term “golden shower.” An alleged predilection for young girls. Mace in the face. A $75 million lawsuit brought by Jay-Z for breach of contract...
...departure that will provoke an intellectual and cultural war of the worlds in Washington-she is considered the next most likely to go, after Rehnquist. One decision centered on large displays of the Ten Commandments in two county courthouses in Kentucky, which had been challenged as being an impermissible breach of the separation between church and state. O'Connor's vote made the decision 5-4 against the displays because, the majority opinion said, the counties' motivation for the prominent showings seemed to be primarily religious...
...Organizers dished out $2.4 billion on operations and in May said they had turned a $9.2 million profit. All told, spending on the Athens Games exceeded the gdps of more than 100 nations, including Jamaica and Malta. Thanks to its profligacy, Greece now has a 6% budget deficit, in breach of the European Union's stability pact, and its economic growth is projected to slow from 4.2% in 2004 to 2.8% in 2005. "The fact that Greece is in breach of the stability pact is in large part due to Olympic accounts," says Christos Hadjiemmanuil, who is on leave from...
...abortion as a means of birth control," says Myra Wood Bennett, a county health official in southern Illinois. The poorer girls, she notes, simply cannot afford it. Federal funding of most abortions for low-income women was barred by Congress in 1976; only nine states have stepped into the breach, providing for abortions without restrictions...