Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DRAWING on satellite photos and reports from spies on the ground, the CIA team decided it had enough data to produce a computer model of the secret plant. When the experts gathered around a terminal at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, what they saw on the video screen took their breath away. It was a huge underground chamber of several thousand square feet, almost three stories high. Two years earlier, Washington had succeeded in an international campaign to close down Libya's chemical-weapons plant at Rabta. Now Muammar Gaddafi was building a second nerve-gas plant near...
...cooperation in the apparently successful effort to freeze North Korea's nuclear-weapons program and of its restraint in using its U.N. Security Council veto against U.S. initiatives. But Washington remains utterly frustrated by insensitivity--if not outright resistance--to other American concerns where China is giving little ground or no ground...
...Hamilton, unmarried, 43, a thwarted scoutmaster with an obsessive interest in guns and a habit of photographing very young boys naked from the waist up. It seemed a familiar but dislocated story, the kind usually set in dreary rooming houses across the Atlantic--narratives pieced together after the grisly, ground-breaking crimes that are an American genre...
...there is something about our winner-take-all commercial existence that systematically rewards nonintegrity, then that is something we ought to know about. And something that a President, if he is in the market for ways to seize the moral high ground, might want to do more than preach about...
...gave up a lot of our possessions, and ground balls gave us a lot of trouble," Anderson said. "When we're inside and the ball hits the ground, the whistle blows. That doesn't happen outside...