Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upon reaching the church, Cambridge and state police had blocked off Mass. Ave. with 2,500 feet of iron fencing. Parked cars left unattended were towed (potential bomb threats). All pedestrians were steered away from the area surrounding the church...
...shirtbox-size bombs, delivered by mail or private courier, were packaged in brown cardboard and wrapped with tape. Several bore the return address of an iron-and-metal company in Pennsylvania. In each was a fishing-tackle box. When the latch was opened, it connected an electrical circuit and set off several pounds of dynamite surrounded by shrapnel. One bomb killed Eleanor Fowler, 56, in West Valley, near Buffalo. Another was opened by her husband Robert, 38, at his job in an armored-car garage in nearby Cheektowaga; it killed him and a co-worker. A third blew up Lazore...
...soundly -- we're now more gun-shy than ever about substituting our judgment for his. Yeltsin's our guy. We're not going to undermine him with a policy of neocontainment that boosts the hard-line empire builders. Yeltsin says drawing a new line in Europe that shifts the Iron Curtain back to Russia's borders could do just that. And we're going with his instincts. End of story...
...capacity as chief physician at the stateschool, Benda also would have supervised thesecond iron supplement study...
...calcium and iron experiments were publishedin the Journal of Nutrition...