Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this pre-harvest work is done by the hour rather than by piecework, because every process builds on the other, and if one is messed up it's trouble," he says. "You can destroy a lot of things [really quickly] if you don't know what you're doing...
...wall at the Habaniya air base were the words DOWN AMERICA. The 75 inspectors--four of them Americans--may have come back, but they were still not welcome. And there was no guarantee that they would now have an easier time carrying out their mission: to search for and destroy Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Bill Clinton seemed skeptical of the hasty, Russian-led diplomatic initiative that had persuaded Baghdad to back down: he continued to dispatch more planes and ships to the region in case Saddam once again interfered with the U.N.'s work...
President Clinton says it should be different this time. The inspectors, he said last week, "must be able to proceed with their work without interference, to find, to destroy, to prevent Iraq from rebuilding nuclear, chemical and biological weapons." But that is what Saddam agreed to after his defeat in 1991, so no one can assume he means it this time. The U.S. does have the muscle in place in the gulf to hit Saddam with bombs and missiles if he does not comply with U.N. orders. Washington says it will wait and see. But is Clinton ready to bomb...
...accident at the plant is too much a simple result of human zeal to be believed. First, a nuclear explosion would do much more than destroy the plant itself. The citizens' unquestioning acceptance of the plant lends even less credibility to the accident, as well as to the plot...
...ongoing currency mayhem and turmoil in the stock markets of Asia were, in my view, the result of a carefully calculated plot by bloodthirsty speculators. They prove Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's accusation that the outside world, particularly the West, was trying to destroy Malaysia's economy. With Asia battered, I wonder who's next? CHEE KEONG WOON Petaling Jaya, Malaysia...