Word: collisional
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Except for nuclear war or a collision with an asteroid, no force has more potential to damage our planet's web of life than global warming. It's a "serious" issue, the White House admits, but nonetheless George W. Bush has decided to abandon the 1997 Kyoto treaty to combat...
Still, there were plenty of signs of a softening atmosphere; President Bush dispatched a personal letter of condolence to the wife of the Chinese pilot believed killed in the collision with the U.S. plane, and Chinese officials allowed a fourth visit by U.S. officials Monday to the detained crew members...
And there's a second dimension of the incident that could create the basis for an apology by the U.S. that would avoid assuming responsibility for the actual collision. Since the beginning of the crisis, Chinese officials have repeatedly dwelt on the complaint that after the accident, the stricken U.S...
(2 of 3) It was bad enough that the Chinese were holding the crew and autopsying the plane; then Jiang stepped forward to charge that the U.S. was fully responsible for the crash and owed China an apology. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer flatly ruled out any such thing, and...
By monday morning, some 36 hours had passed without progress. Bush met with Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney and agreed that it was time for him to make a statement and turn up the pressure on Jiang. But there were domestic political pressures at play as well...