Word: handiwork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crowley glued the pilfered illustrations tobaroque jewelry-box like constructions, whichexhibited meticulous handiwork and were coatedwith a clear varnish, police said. Police found 12such boxes in Crowley's home...
While serving as an aide to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, Salem insisted to American reporters that Islam is a religion of mercy. Then he showed them photographs of people with cigarette burns and other marks of torture. Some journalists got the idea he was boasting of his own handiwork...
...plotters had succeeded, their handiwork would have traumatized the entire U.S. as well. In Washington, President Clinton said the American people should feel "an enormous sense of pride" that the terrorist plot had been foiled. In New York City, U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White noted that Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali, accused ringleader of the bombmakers, had been quoted as boasting, "We can get you anytime!" (He uttered these words after the Feb. 26 bombing of the World Trade Center.) Said White: "Law enforcement's answer is, 'No, you cannot' . . . We will not permit the likes of these defendants to terrorize...
...thing is that the handful of large companies -- Aetna, CIGNA, MetLife, Prudential and Travelers -- that broke away from an organization called the Health Insurance Industry of America to form the Alliance for Managed Competition are also gearing up to oppose what is supposed to be their handiwork. Their argument: Instead of trying to institute a true managed-competition system, the Administration is opting for an unworkable combination of that and a system known as single-payer. Under a genuine single-payer system, like the one that operates in Canada, the government is the only insurer and pays all doctor...
SCIENCE: Copying Nature's Handiwork...