Word: illicitness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...chemical weapons was so dangerous that destroying it was worth a war. They laid claim to information so certain that Colin Powell was able to provide graphic details to a U.N. audience in February. Pentagon officials were confident that the quality of their intelligence would lead troops to the illicit stockpiles fairly quickly once U.S. boots were on Iraqi soil. Now they're adjusting the picture: the Pentagon says its soldiers are no more likely to stumble over a weapons cache than top U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix was. "Things were mobile. Things were underground. Things were in tunnels. Things...
...troops next door, Bush's advisers decided "to rattle the cage" of Syrian President Bashar Assad, says a White House aide. Overnight the Administration swung its big guns from Baghdad toward Damascus and read Syria the riot act. President Bush charged Damascus with possessing illicit chemical weapons. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said there was "absolutely no question" that Syria was harboring Iraqi leaders who had fled their defeated country; he added that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction might have been spirited to Syria as well. The Pentagon accused Damascus of "hostile acts"--shipping war supplies to Saddam's forces...
...Chirac himself has not been implicated in the case, but the sums are substantial. Le Floch-Prigent estimated Elf handed out about $5 million per year to the political parties, but Sirven quickly claimed that the amount was "very, very, very, very much higher." Why would Elf make potentially illicit payments to French politicians? Le Floch-Prigent's rationale had a touch of paranoia to it: "Elf is a French company up against the Anglo-Saxon world," he told the court. "We are David against Goliath. Our politicians had to support us everywhere. In Africa, for example...
...disturbed to read of the College’s concessions to pressure from the movie and music industries ( News, “Lewis Threatens To Unplug Illicit File Traders,” April 11 ). While the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is far from perfect, copyright law does not require the severe and potentially unwarranted penalties the University has announced...
...will likely hail the kiss as progressive yet long overdue. Harvard men, for their part, also seem poised to welcome the historic television event—as an important first step in socializing their most private and cherished erotic fantasies, which until now have found an outlet only through illicit late night file transfers...