Word: containable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town used to contain a grist mill, used to process grain, a blacksmith's shop, a dairy with 15 cows and a hostel, all of which have since closed. No businesses remain...
...Flight 800 case, federal points of inquiry already assume the existence of a crime. If there was a bomb, did it contain Semtex, a powerful Czech explosive used by Libyan agents in the Pan Am 103 bombing? Or a lower-grade nitroglycerine-nitrocellulose mix? And what evidence can be extrapolated from the existing clues to help answer these questions...
DIED. GENERAL MOHAMMED FARRAH AIDID, 62, Somali faction leader; of a heart attack, a week after suffering wounds in a battle against rival warlords in Mogadishu. In 1993 a U.S.-led U.N. peacekeeping mission was marred when an effort to contain Aidid led to the death of 18 American soldiers in a battle with local militiamen...
...turned out to contain the belongings of a patron who was inside buying a sandwich...
...established group. Any major terrorist organization would have claimed credit by now, cashing in the political chips they bought with other people's lives. There is a twisted sense of comfort in fingering an established suspect. You feel as if you can deal with them, kill them, contain them, do whatever it takes to stop the violence. But at least you have that precious commodity, so elusive in terrorist attacks: a sense of control...