Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doing so, it is important to realize that Israel did not accept the PLO on the basis of a profound change in the organization's ultimate goals. Indeed, Arafat has still not moved to revoke the clauses in the PLO charter that call for an armed struggle to destroy the Jewish state...
...random violence turned into something far more gothic. Even people without the faintest interest in the crystalline world of figure skating could not help marveling at the spectacle. Did the scrappy girl from the trailer parks, who has climbed so high and suffered so much, possibly plot to destroy her rival? Or did her violently jealous husband assemble a gang of goons to act without her knowledge but on her behalf? If so, was the motive love or money? If not, why are others smearing his name with dirt? And if Tonya Harding turns out to be innocent, how searing...
...corrected yet? Vicki Balogh of Trenton, Michigan, is facing such a moment of truth right now, as she awaits the results of a test that will tell her whether she carries the gene for ataxia. The degenerative disease killed her mother at 52 and has already started to destroy the nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord of three of Vicki's brothers. "I'm 35, and that's young enough to make a career change," says Balogh, a manager at Ameritech. "I've always wanted to be a teacher, but if I have ataxia, well...
...show (see box). They first played Vegas a year ago. Penn Jillette's fondness for Vegas, like every hip baby boomer's, is sweet-and-sour, simultaneously bemused and fond. Of a traditional Vegas variety show at Bally's called Jubilee, he rants, "In the first five minutes they destroy temples and sink a giant model of the Titanic -- there are 80 topless dancing women while the Titanic sinks, blast furnaces spewing fire. You look around you, and every single person in the crowd perceives it ironically. Every single person in the show perceives it ironically. It seems like everybody...
...givinglarge doses of radiation to terminally ill cancerpatients. In an article he authored in the May1949 American Journal of Public Health, Warrenwrote that "the development of the atomic bomb hasbeen felt as keenly as a contribution to thewelfare of mankind as in the programs for thedevelopment of weapons to destroy mankind...