Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what do we hate more than lawyers? That's right, jury duty. And big, fat, sleazy corporations with maggoty ad campaigns and overpaid ceos. And shameless, unjustifiable federal subsidies! And corporate legal departments, yes, oh yes, crawling with lawyers with compound eyes and side-mounted mandibles...
Less than a month has passed since more than 100 Lebanese civilians were slaughtered by an Israeli artillery barrage on a U.N. compound. In that time, the village of Qana has become a shrine to Lebanon's rage and anguish. Photographs of the victims, who include at least 25 children under the age of 12, adorn a cement memorial. Black banners decry Israel's "terrorism" and "barbarity." But did Israel attack the U.N. base deliberately? Lebanese say yes. Israel vehemently says no, it was an accident. Last week the U.N. reported on its own investigation by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros...
...some point after Hizballah's mortar attack, two, or perhaps three, of its fighters entered the camp. That has prompted some U.N. officials to suggest privately that Israel knew exactly what it was doing: it bombed the mortar site first, then deliberately aimed the airburst shells at the compound in the hopes of nailing the fighters. Van Kappen's monograph did not go so far as to make this accusation explicit--although the U.S., which fears that the report may jeopardize a new agreement to contain the war between Israel and Hizballah, is apparently interpreting it in this light...
...deep trouble. This was not a simple overshoot." Nevertheless, the Israelis, who have contradicted themselves several times in an effort to explain how the atrocity occurred, insist that the report is grossly unfair. They say the attack was not deliberate and attribute the shelling of the U.N. compound to a combination of map-reading error and differing muzzle velocities. But with each effort to backtrack, Israel only seems to dig itself deeper into Qana's moral crater...
...AVIV, Israel: An eight-minute video shot by a U.N. officer shows an Israeli drone aircraft hovering over a U.N. compound when Israeli forces shelled the area April 18. The video is especially embarrassing for Israel, which had denied that the remotely piloted aircraft was in the area. After being confronted with evidence to the contrary, an army spokesman said the plane was on another mission, but Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe reports that U.N. officials are skeptical of Israel's explanation. "They say it is absurd that a drone would be there not looking at the area they were...