Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cole who chose Fargo as the microcosm for the debate on federal benevolence and intrusion. Says Duffy, who wrote the story: "She saw it as a fascinating mix of frontier and front page. Then she dissected the town until she knew more about it than a lot of Fargoans. Late last week, needing an anecdote, she ran down to a local bowling alley, did three interviews and delivered a freshly minted kicker for the story inside of an hour...
...provides an excellent mix of Harvard and independence which isn't provided in the Houses," Cole adds...
There are more than 800 different commercially available ANFO preparations. One of the more common mixtures uses pellets of ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel fuel to form a semiliquid that has a consistency of mayonnaise. Because of ANFO's stability, it is usually transported in heavy- duty trucks that often resemble cement mixers. Or construction crews can mix it on site by combining bags of high-grade ammonium nitrate with drums full of fuel...
...than many other explosives, amateur bombmakers can easily blow themselves up if they are not careful. "ANFO is easy to make if you know how to do it, but it takes years of experience to work with it safely," says Dean. Moreover, it is almost impossible for amateurs to mix thoroughly the ammonium nitrate with the fuel oil. (Commercial manufacturers use industrial-size blenders for the job.) Clumps of ammonium nitrate will fail to detonate--leaving investigators with good clues about the materials used to make the bomb. That is apparently what happened in California one morning in 1990, when...
...grisly mix of fertilizer and hatred that detonated in Oklahoma City last week appears to provide stark evidence of something many Americans have denied: the existence of paranoid, violent thinking within our borders. Just what are the tenets of this thinking? And did they figure in last year's election returns...