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Word: compellingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would hop from peak to peak, guarding the withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeepers winding along roads in the valleys below. They will head west for Adriatic ports or east to Belgrade, assuming Serbia approves. While the allies want to bring tanks and other vehicles with them, heavy fire could compel them to destroy the weapons in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PENTAGON'S CONTINGENCY PLAN | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

Speaking before Congress, several of these militia members lined up to explain the threats that compel them to arm and prepare for the eventual confrontation with a government gone mad. Along with murdering innocent civilians (and Vince Foster), the federal government, reports one militia leader, operates diabolical machines to create tornadoes to "confuse" midwesterners. That sounds reasonable. It looks like these wackos have been to Oz and back...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: The Militias Hit the Big Time | 7/11/1995 | See Source »

...Harvard's own Radiation Protection Office does not use suspension as a means to compel scientists to follow regulations, according to Ring...

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: Labs Improve Handling of Radioactive Waste | 4/18/1995 | See Source »

Lebed: I never defended the White House. I defended common sense. They tried to push me, a Russian general, to shoot my own people in the capital of my own state. No such force exists that would compel me to do this. I'm not a policeman. My job is to deal with external enemies. Build up a national guard or whatever you want to deal with domestic problems, but leave the armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AWAITING HIS NATION'S CALL: RUSSIA'S GENERAL LEBED | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

...same bed for many nights to come as he waits to stand trial. He has ordered his lawyers to file suit against French agents, whom he claims drugged, bound and abducted him from Sudan. In Paris the Justice Ministry is vowing to open old files that could compel Carlos to stand trial at least four times. Meanwhile, Berlin's attorney general is threatening to seek extradition for a 1983 bombing. In the Middle East, Arabs are bracing for shocking disclosures, since Carlos is "a walking encyclopedia of terrorism," says investigating magistrate Bruguiere. An East European diplomat in Beirut admits that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carlos Caged | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

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