Word: compounds
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Waco was nothin' compared to Colorado City," an antipolygamy activist says, while the Branch Davidian compound burns. Independent gubernatorial candidate Richard Mahoney suggests Republican Matt Salmon cannot crack down on the town's polygamist sect because he is Mormon...
...Donald Rumsfeld, one of Sharon's most ardent defenders in the Administration, has said it would be in "Israel's overwhelming best interests" not to launch any retaliatory strikes against Iraq. Through his aides, Bush also demanded last month that Israeli forces lift their siege of Yasser Arafat's compound and hold back in the West Bank and Gaza. It's working: Israeli officials now say they may withdraw the army from Hebron by the end of this week...
...tentatively authenticated, al-Zawahiri warned of further attacks against the U.S., vowing that it will not go "unpunished for its crimes.") According to a source inside a Bangladeshi Islamic group with close ties to al-Qaeda, al-Zawahiri arrived in Dhaka in early March and stayed briefly in the compound of a local fundamentalist leader. It's unclear how al-Zawahiri came to be in Bangladesh, or whether he's still there. However, a source in the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (dgfi), a Bangladeshi military intelligence agency, told TIME that al-Zawahiri is believed to have left Bangladesh this...
...scholars seeking alpine inspiration amid the pedestrian pre-occupations of the capital. The mountain's contemporary history is not so dignified. It took on a sinister reputation under nearly three decades of military dictatorship, when the once-feared Secret Police was headquartered on its slopes. Last year the compound returned to its roots and was transformed into a writers' retreat. Even more recently, the ugly government-owned apartment complexes were demolished to make room for a botanical park with manicured gardens...
...We’re a more nerdy group than many at this school.” As if to prove this point, they pass around a chemistry data table written in English, French and German. “Do you pronounce this organic compound as Le Ketone or La Ketone?” jokes Pilkiewicz. The others—four concentrating in chemistry and one each in engineering, computer science and biological anthropology—laugh at the patent hilarity of the fact that the French name is exactly the same as the English version...