Word: breaches
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...plasma is indeed responsible, it couldn't have done it alone. It needed to make its way through an existing breach in Columbia's aluminum skin. How could that coat have been punctured? There are still only theories, but here is what we do know: new temperature records reveal that the heat in the left wheel well began to increase when the shuttle was still over the Pacific, heading for California. That suggests the ship sustained damage in orbit, but began to feel the effects only when the temperature rose during re-entry. "In a large number of cases," says...
...Britain and the group led by France, Russia and Germany is a sharply divergent view of the nature and scale of any threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and therefore also over the appropriate penalties. There is little argument in the Security Council over whether or not Baghdad is in breach of many of its disarmament obligations. But while President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair insist that Saddam is hell-bent on stockpiling non-conventional weapons and will inevitably share them with al-Qaeda, the antiwar Europeans see him less as a rising menace than as an incorrigible nuisance...
...cuts to the heart of the U.N.'s authority: he'll detail the ways Washington believes Iraq is cheating on inspections. For the Administration's case, the great value of Resolution 1441, authorizing the inspections, is the clarity with which it states that obstructing its terms constitutes a material breach that would provoke "serious consequences." The Administration feels that if the U.S. can showcase invidious, systematic defiance of inspections, the Council--including skeptical nations like France and Russia--will be obliged to take action if only to preserve its authority...
...flip side: many CEOs in particular are not disposed to listen to someone they don't consider a peer. "There's still a pecking order in the boardroom," says the Council of Institutional Investors' Teslik. It will be up to new directors to breach that barrier. Munoz, for his part, says he would not join any board that seemed resistant to change. "It's not that difficult to tell whether someone is sincere about wanting to include you in the decision-making process," he says...
...Today Iraq still poses a threat and Iraq still remains in material breach." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, in a presentation on Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction to the U.N. Security Council...