Word: lair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday that a relatively low-level associate of bin Laden may have been identified by an embassy guard as having been in the truck carrying the bomb in Nairobi. Clinton aides are looking at contingency plans for covert operations to capture bin Laden from his reputed high-tech lair deep inside Afghanistan...
...Laden's lair is probably secure as long as he maintains his cozy relations with the Taliban and with radical Islamists in next-door Pakistan. U.S. officials say photos from their spy satellites have spotted increased traffic in and out of bin Laden's camps, and they admit they don't know what to make of it. For bin Laden, it could simply be business as usual...
Microsoft has decided to beard the lion in his lair and ask a federal appeals court flat out if a preliminary injunction prevents it from bundling the Internet Explorer browser into Windows 98. With the release date of Windows 98 fast approaching, Microsoft can't play chicken much longer. The company's spin on the matter makes the release of Windows 98 sound like some unpredictable natural phenomenon, like the migration of caribou, that would be unnatural to prevent, and Microsoft invokes the image of a pathetic, browserless Windows that "would bear little, if any, resemblance to Windows 98." Well...
...Gipper can rest easy: The bear is very definitely dead -- smitten, in fact, by an elderly Russian woman out gathering wood. ITAR-Tass reported today that Nina Bogdanova of the village of Boborets was attacked by a bear that bit through her hand after she had accidentally entered its lair. Unfazed, Bogdanova whipped out a knife and stabbed the bear to death. She then went home and had a doctor stitch her up without anesthetic -- she's allergic to painkillers. So there may no longer be a bear out there, but there is one mean babushka...
...Unabomber's Lair...