Word: kyl
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...preliminary assessment: very vulnerable. "The only question is when," says Arizona Republican SENATOR JON KYL, who pushed for the formation of the commission, which will deliver a secret report to the President in October. The panel's chairman, Robert Marsh, says radical groups like the Irish Republican Army are looking at ways to wage "economic terrorism," and computer assaults are already rampant. A hacker shut down computers at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia last winter by sending in 30,000 E-mail messages. The Langley machines were paralyzed for six hours...
...source of dissent stems from opposition in Congress, primarily from Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Jesse Helms (R-NC), the powerful chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. If the United States does not ratify the treaty before it goes into effect, it will forfeit the opportunity to become an original party to the CWC and to determine much of its implementation. To waste this opportunity would be a grave mistake and an example of misplaced idealism on the part of uninformed officials. The Senate must seize this opportunity and ratify the treaty in the next few weeks; the reasons...
...next five months, Kennedy and Kassebaum tracked down a number of conservative suspects, among them Oklahoma's Don Nickles, Arizona's John Kyl, North Carolina's Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, and majority whip Trent Lott. But each potential culprit denied he was the one standing in the way of the bill--at that moment, at least. The hold, it seems, was rolling from requester to anonymous requester. Behind it all, Kennedy and Kassebaum believed, was the Health Insurance Association of America, which has argued that the bill will be far more expensive than advertised. The association also fears that...
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...Crossroads of Five Civilizations: Ottoman Culture in Kamianets' Podil's'kyl--by Dariusz Kolodziejczyk, assistant professor, Warsaw University, Poland. Ukranian Research Institute, Seminar Room, 1583 Mass...