Word: lurked
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MOBILE LAUNCHERS Experts believe Iraq is hiding Scud missiles on mobile launchers that cruise its western border to evade detection and lurk in range of Israeli and Saudi targets...
...wide awake--palms sweaty, heart racing. You're worried about your kids. Your aging parents. Your 401(k). Your health. Your sex life. Breathing evenly beside you, your spouse is oblivious. Doesn't he--or she--see the dangers that lurk in every shadow? He must not. Otherwise, how could he, with all that's going on in the world, have talked so calmly at dinner last night about flying to Florida for a vacation...
Thus, when Harvard admits its incapacity to enforce the rules that it has established, we feel threatened, we feel vulnerable to the injustices that lurk beyond our ivy-covered walls. More than anything, we feel let down—because while Harvard doesn’t have to be different from the outside world, we have come to expect...
...even an outbreak wouldn't be good news of sorts if it were tied to resurgent economic growth. But whenever energy prices are high - and despite taking a brief slide Monday as Iraq ended its month-long oil embargo, they still are - the worst kind of price pressures lurk. Add to that the weak dollar increasing domestic prices in the import-dependent U.S., and it's not too hard to imagine some version of that dreaded 70s economy - growth-less inflation and listless stock prices - playing in re-runs this summer. That could force Greenspan into some very unpopular tightening...
...Gates of Janus is presented in two parts. The first contains Brady's take on man's disposition as it relates to crime. To Brady's way of thinking, a killer may lurk within us all: therefore, responding to a murderous impulse may simply be being honest to oneself. In the second part, Brady analyzes the perpetrators of 11 serial killings, including American Ted Bundy, executed in 1989 for murdering three women and suspected of slaying over 30 more, and "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, imprisoned for murdering 13 women in northern England...