Word: chased
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...barrage Task Force 1/9's base with rockets and mortars every two or three days, knowing that the Americans will rarely fire back. "I can fire from anywhere I like. Go on, pick a spot. I'll show you," Abu Musa'ab told TIME. "They can't chase us in here...
...main reason for the animals' decline is that their favorite foods are disappearing from the landscape. Both the goitered and jeeber gazelles have been virtually wiped out by nomadic hunters. Cheetahs have been forced to survive on urial and ibex--mountain sheep and mountain goats--which are impossible to chase on steep, stony slopes. "Cheetahs have to wait for them to come down to the foothills in search of water holes," says Hunter. "It means they have a narrow hunting window, and that is depressing their population." To rehabilitate the prey, which are all protected species under Iranian...
...everywhere he wants to be. Since the 19-year-old became the first person to break five individual world records at a single meet last summer, his mighty fine physique has graced a slew of magazine covers (including those of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, ESPN and TIME), thousands of credit cards (Chase started issuing them in April) and an unprecedented six national TV commercials that feature the hydrophilic Olympic hopeful doing everything from racing a dolphin (for Argent Mortgage) to swimming laps across the Atlantic (for Visa). Meanwhile, Phelps sponsor Speedo has garnered boatloads of free publicity by announcing a $1 million...
...much can give accomplices who may still be out there some scrap of information they need to continue eluding capture. In 2002, for example, officials withheld information discovered in a sweep of Chechen-trained jihadists planning to bomb the Russian embassy in Paris. Investigators used the undivulged leads to chase down additional members of the plot and uncover details of far greater planned violence...
Somebody hail Travis Bickle. Sports-car chase scenes must be running out of gas: the humble cab is stealing all the great vehicular roles...