Word: lethally
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Initial speculation in this case centers upon plastic explosives like Semtex, the lethal weapon of choice for many terrorists because it is safe to - handle and undetectable by sniffer dogs or X-ray inspection. A small amount hidden in a portable radio blew Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky in 1988. Semtex was produced in quantity under the communist government of Czechoslovakia; while the postcommunist Czech Republic has discontinued production, large quantities remain in the hands of terrorist gangs that obtained them illicitly. Three years ago, Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel estimated that "world terrorism has supplies of Semtex...
...latest deal, he was able to offer Coke the services of top filmmakers as collaborators on its ads. Film directors Rob Reiner (When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men) and Richard Donner (Superman, Lethal Weapon), for example, were among those producing the new Coke commercials. "What we do every day," explains Ovitz, "is listen to ideas, encourage them, nurture them. This is no different. Instead of creating a story that is TV or feature-film length, we shifted to stories that are 30 seconds or 60 seconds long." As for what Coca- Cola paid CAA for its work...
Given that bias, it is even harder for a lawyer to call it self-defense when a woman shoots a sleeping husband. The danger was hardly immediate, prosecutors argue, nor was the lethal response reasonable. Evidence about battered-woman syndrome may be the only way to persuade a jury to identify with a killer. "Battered women are extraordinarily sensitive to cues of danger, and that's how they survive," says Walker. "That is why many battered women kill, not during what looks like the middle of a fight, but when the man is more vulnerable or the violence is just...
...Good Men (Tom Cruise=$55 million), The Bodyguard (Kevin Costner=$88 million, despite intense critical pummeling) and Home Alone 2, the failure-proof sequel that has rung up $146 million, already placing it in the top three of 1992's big earners, along with Batman Returns and Lethal Weapon 3 -- also sequels that offered more of the same...
...October 1990, party leader L.K. Advani escalated his campaign: he led a 6,200-mile procession across India in support of the movement to build the Rama temple. Lethal riots followed, but the extremist spasm had its desired effect. In 1991 the Bharatiya Janata Party won four state governments and 119 seats in the lower house, which made it the official opposition to Rao's ruling Congress Party...