Word: offing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spare a thought for the thousands of FBI and security officials who guard the United States from terrorism. Not only will they spend New Year's Eve stone-cold sober and ready to roll at the chime of a beeper; the next day, and the next and the day after...
New York City's Times Square on New Year's Eve could conceivably look like a scene out of a Quentin Tarantino movie, with different groups of terrorists - unaware of each other and motivated by passions as diverse as Middle Eastern Islamic fundamentalism and midwestern right-wing conspiracy theories - converging...
However, though that could deter or foil terrorists who may have been planning to strike as the ball drops, it doesn't stop them from striking a mile or two down the road or in the same place on the following weekend. Thus the handicapping of the war on terrorism...
Even in this gilded era of unsurpassed profit for biotech and pharmaceutical conglomerates, one company always struck analysts as something of a black sheep. The Monsanto Company, whose subsidiary Searle makes the wildly successful arthritis drug Celebrex, has been casting around for a merger partner for over a year, and...
Thanks to energetic protesters who claim the company's modified crops carry a wide range of environmental and health risks, opposition to the so-called Frankenfoods reached a fever pitch in Europe this year. And lately, American consumers have shown signs of rebelling against products such as Monsanto's modified...