Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...double-edged chemical. Spread it on a field and it becomes a benign fertilizer that helps produce bumper crops. Mix it with fuel oil and it becomes the kind of deadly bomb that shook Oklahoma City last week. The U.S. makes 8 million tons of the white crystalline compound each year, and it is widely available in gardening centers, supply warehouses and at construction sites. But just because anyone can buy ammonium nitrate for about 11¢ a pound doesn't mean that anyone can make it explode at a particular time and place. The act of terror that demolished...
...likely to blow up. To unleash the power of ANFO, demolition workers must use a device called a detonator-which contains a small amount of a highly explosive material-and a powerful booster charge that will create enough of a shock wave to set off the compound. A special type of detonator called a blasting cap is most frequently used, and its sale is tightly controlled...
...Oklahoma disaster, forensic experts had called for additional regulations that would make it more difficult to create ANFO bombs. Some have called for bans on the sale of ammonium nitrate except to licensed buyers. Or, less drastically, the government could require the inclusion of inert materials that make the compound less explosive--as is done in England and Northern Ireland. That would inconvenience American farmers, who would have to use more fertilizer to get the same result. But it might also end up saving lives...
...which plainly was a force in the 1994 elections. For instance, George Nethercutt, the giant-slayer Congressman who knocked off former House Speaker Tom Foley in Washington State, drew strength from radio shows where callers talked about sightings of black helicopters and U.N. plans to set up a secret compound in the state. In neighboring Idaho, Helen Chenoweth upended an environmentalist Democratic incumbent in part by saying that the only endangered species was the "white Anglo-Saxon male...
...major Japanese daily reports thatShoko Asahara, leader of theAum Shinrikyo cult, has been found by police and is under constant surveillance. Police have been searching the cult's compound for the past week in an effort to find Asahara, who had been missing since theMar. 20 Tokyo subway gas attack. The Sankei Shimbun is the only Japanese paper to report the story, with other Japanese media continuing to say authorities are still looking for Asahara...