Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is evidence, and we believe, that response in the brain to stimuli can trigger this," Kirby said, while emphasizing that the exact mechanism behind the fatal attack is not well known...
...exact shape of a postwar scenario, of course, would depend on the details of the Iraqi proposal and of the negotiations that would follow. But it is possible to sketch the broad outlines. The most significant fact is that Iraq will emerge from battle with the menacing, bristling war machine that Saddam built up over the past decade substantially defanged, if not yet completely tamed. The allies have seen to that from the first days of the war, knocking out Iraq's ability, at least for the time being, to produce chemical, biological and nuclear arms and later obliterating about...
...habits. In an effort to prevent the disease from spreading to their neighboring countries, health officials in Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile have prohibited the importation of uncooked Peruvian food products. Soccer matches in Lima between Peruvian teams and squads from Argentina and Uruguay have also been canceled. While the exact source of the outbreak remains unclear, tests of coastal waters have shown a high degree of contamination. Some reports speculate that the cholera arrived on a ship from Southeast Asia...
There is no exact Islamic equivalent to the concept of just war, but an equally complex notion stands in its place: jihad. The term has become disturbingly familiar to Westerners, but its meaning is far broader than holy war, the sense in which it has been brandished by Saddam Hussein and numerous Middle East militants. In the Koran the Prophet Muhammad is depicted as a divinely inspired military leader who unified formerly separate Arab tribes around his new faith. While the Koran most often uses the concept of jihad in the military sense, the word actually translates as "striving." According...
...generals keep straight the tens of thousands of details involved in organizing up to 3,000 missions a day? "We have a lot of computers," says Lieut. General Charles Horner, the allied air commander. The exact number of machines is unknown, but a Texas supply house reports that Central Command gave it a rush order last month for 1,300 desktop computers, 1,300 laser printers, 350 laptops, 10 local-area networks and an assortment of peripheral equipment (including dust covers and cleaning kits) with a delivery date of "no later than...