Word: guns
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...House Republicans will vote on one issue they almost always agree on: limiting lawsuits. The House is scheduled to vote on bills that limit legal liability for gun manufacturers and restaurants, who are worried about lawsuits by people who say they have become obese through eating fatty foods at their establishments...
...soldiers with gas masks and small grenade launchers edged along the side of the souvenir shop. Shortly before their assault, Russia's Deputy Prosecutor General, Vladimir Kolesnikov, stressed that women were being held hostage inside. "We have to act with surgical precision," he said. Under cover of heavy machine-gun fire, the Spetsnaz pumped round after round of grenades into the small shop. After half an hour, they abruptly ceased fire and slipped off as quietly as they came. Journalists were told the hostages had been saved, though no one could explain how they survived the barrage. A look...
...taking forceful action in response to misbehavior," says Alan Hevesi, New York State comptroller, whose retirement system invested $36 million in Refco through Lee and others. Lee declined to comment. Bennett's lawyer, Gary Naftalis, reiterated what he had already said in court: "We think the government jumped the gun...
...indication that the draconian security measures that banned almost all vehicular traffic, international travel and movement between provinces were effective in curbing insurgents' attacks. Still, the night before the vote, insurgents sabotaged an electrical tower, plunging the city and northern towns into darkness. There were also reports of gun battles between insurgents, on one hand, and U.S. and Iraqi troops in Ramadi and other western towns Saturday, causing voters to stay away from the polling booths. In the capital, however, there were attacks by gunmen at only four polling stations and a few ineffectual mortars. By 5 p.m., when polls...
...thought my life after 70 was finished," says Saito, as weathered as a tugboat and as trim as a battleship. "But I could still keep doing things my way, with complete freedom." During his 244-day voyage, the modern-day Ulysses scared off a pirate with a flare gun and subsisted on rations, the occasional flying fish, blood-pressure tablets and rainwater. "It was no problem," he says. "Better than Tokyo city water...