Word: containable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kill him rather than allow him to testify. "Milosevic is afraid of me," he says. "He knows that I have certain documents that heavily compromise him, kept in safe places abroad. I will publish them if anything happens to me." He mutters that he cannot say what the documents contain: "They are the only thing that is keeping me alive...
...conference stopped well short of calling for an outright prohibition. "The Chinese have told us flat out that they'll give up nukes before they give up antipersonnel mines," says a senior State Department negotiator. But the conference did establish new guidelines, under which freshly laid mines must contain enough metal to be detected and would eventually self-destruct. There is a nine-year grace period--if grace is the word--before the new restrictions become mandatory...
...netless, id plans to ship 500,000 copies of a CD-ROM-based version to retail stores. Again, the bad boys at the always-lower-case id (for "in demand") have come up with a novel retail strategy. The disk will contain the first third of the game--and cost just $5. Want more? Call the toll-free number, pay $35 via credit card, and id will unlock the rest...
Medical records contain some of the most sensitive of personal information--including sexual orientation, past drug use and genetic predisposition to various diseases. As part of the Hippocratic oath, physicians promise to keep whatever they learn about a patient to themselves. But it's hard to keep a secret if more than a couple of people are in on it; in a typical five-day stay at a teaching hospital, as many as 150 people--from nursing staff to X-ray technicians to billing clerks--have legitimate access to a single patient's records...
...inches of rainfall since the first of the year, and the moisture content of debris on the forest floor is less than half what it usually is." Significant rain doesn't usually reach the region until July or August. So far, U.S. Forest Service officials have been able to contain the blazes before they caused extensive damage to private property. Last week's 16,000-acre Dome Fire threatened the Los Alamos National Laboratories, where much of the early research on atomic energy was conducted, but no damage to the station was done...