Word: nail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tamraz scandal was only the last nail. Republicans on the Senate Intelligence committee, and especially chairman Richard Shelby, had been gunning for Lake ever since Clinton nominated him to take over the CIA in December. Early on, Shelby decided to hold Lake's nomination hostage to pry more documents out of the White House on everything from Haiti to Lake's stock holdings to the campaign-finance scandal. Administration officials tell TIME that a Shelby aide even drove the 35 miles to the supersecret National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, to ask if the NSA had any information...
...AVIV: Celebrations for the Jewish holiday Purim were marred today by a suicide bombing attack that killed three and injured 43, many of them children, at a downtown Tel Aviv cafe. The bomber, claimed as a member by Hamas, was also killed by the nail-studded explosive device. Israel responded to the attack by barring Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from entering Israel. The attack could further strain the tenuous peace between Arabs and Jews already tested by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence on building new Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem. The bombing...
With 150 or so patrons, the Otherside Lounge was half full when the latest bomb went off, without warning, shortly after 10 p.m. "Everybody just froze," bartender Rhonda Armstrong told CNN. "It sounded like a cannon in a circus." A rescue worker reported treating a woman with a nail driven into her shoulder, leaving a wound "as big as a nickel." One victim underwent surgery at a nearby hospital and was said to be in stable condition...
That 10-point win was a comparative nail-biter for the Crimson. Harvard isn't just beating its Ivy opponents, it is humiliating them. Thanks to last Friday's 79-34 squeaker at Princeton, the average margin of difference has ballooned to 21 a game...
...flyboys and -girls, a highly trained, highly paid and highly agitated bunch who have always seen themselves on a par with management, with one exception: pilots cannot be replaced quickly or easily. The pilots' union badly bloodied United Airlines in a strike in 1985, and pilots hammered the final nail in Eastern Airlines' corporate coffin in a strike in 1989. The majority of American's pilots served in the military, and many seem to relish the notion of a dogfight with their famously pugnacious boss. "A lot of these guys have been in combat," says strike chairman Matthew Field...