Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the political semiparalysis caused by Yeltsin's disappearance, however, Lebed all but monopolized the media with his Chechnya peace mission. Last week he disclosed chilling new casualty figures for the 20-month war: 80,000 people "plus or minus 10,000" had been killed in the fighting. Three times that number had been maimed or injured, he said, and 60% of the dead were civilians. These figures mean about 30% of Chechnya's 1 million people have been killed or wounded in Yeltsin's vain attempt to impose his will on the tiny republic...
...where a team of some 15 maintenance experts inspected it," said Dionyssios Kalofonos, director of the Greek Civil Aviation Authority. "The plane was not left unattended for a minute." Furthermore, insisted Evangelos Markoulis, spokesman for the Public Order Ministry, "to be precise, a time-bomb device has 12 hours minus one minute to blow up. Therefore, if such a mechanism had been planted on board the aircraft, it would have gone off after it landed at Kennedy." A direct flight to New York from Athens takes 10 hours. To Athens' credit, Greek airport security appears to have improved. Last week...
...past imperfect begins next week in Atlanta on July 31, the first of the decathlon's grueling two days. It is an irony of Olympic fever that one can be, like O'Brien, a three-time world champion and the world record holder in an event and yet, minus that gold, still be only an athlete-in-waiting. But while it is unwise to be too cocksure, O'Brien, who turned 30 last week, is primed. He not only expects the gold but says, "I want to do it right. I want to do it in style, and that...
James Caan, as Kruger's mentor, ably reveals the cutthroat brutality that lies behind the merely serious face of top-secret government. Vanessa Williams, on the other hand, must play the thankless, Schwarzenegger equivalent of a "Bond girl," minus the glamour...
...race in Georgia, where a Republican candidate, Paul Broun, said of his opponent, former Army Captain Max Cleland: "[He] plays that wheelchair up to the nth degree. He just shows people that wheelchair going and coming...It's certainly worth a lot of points." Yes, points for Cleland and minus points for Broun. Cleland is a triple amputee, wounded in Vietnam, who cannot stand or walk...