Word: jacked
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...makes Russia a partner with the West--there are many more questions and apparent contradictions. The biggest threat to the world's security is the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and one of the items atop America's agenda is the reduction of strategic nuclear missiles. But, says Jack Matlock, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, moving NATO to the east "is going to make it much more difficult to negotiate the reduction of these nuclear weapons...
...Jack LaCovey, director of communications for the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI), puts it, "We had a bad rap, but that's changed now that people realize you can make plastic products with high precision and high performance." Mr. Maguire's advice, generally speaking, was sound: over the past 30 years, the plastics industry has grown faster than the nation's gross domestic product. "The Graduate got it right," says Allan Cohen, who studies the industry for First Analysis in Chicago. "There's a lot of wisdom in that film...
...President was understandably silent about all this, but his surrogates treated the news like a hanging curve ball. "A salacious witch-hunt," cried former White House counsels Abner Mikva and Jack Quinn, demanding that Starr either abandon this avenue of inquiry or resign. Pumped with rage and delight, adviser James Carville recited a litany of Whitewater inquiries: "The RTC report, the FDIC report, the Gonzales hearings, the Leach hearings, the D'Amato hearings, the Fiske special prosecutorship, the Starr special prosecutorship--and you know where we are? Into some troopers trying to talk to some women. [The investigation...
...quite done this before. Oh, yes, the British are long practiced in the solemn rites of lowering the imperial flag. For the 68th time this century, the Union Jack will slide permanently down a colonial flagpole, amid skirling Black Watch bagpipes, phalanxes of Gurkha soldiers and the measured paces of the Prince of Wales. But for all its high-toned honorability, the midnight ceremony on June 30 handing Hong Kong over to the People's Republic of China leaves the West feeling guilty, ignoble and very anxious. In those 67 prior cases, the world's greatest modern empire was setting...
...whether states will still have the freedom to make up their own minds on the issue. As a possible sign of what lies ahead, right-to-die campaign representatives say they are ready for a state-level fight. Asked whether Thursday's ruling would halt the activities of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the movement's best-known advocate, Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, was succinct: "Hell...