Word: outfits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that cause deadly hemorrhaging in the brain and chest--at the Al Hakam Single Cell Protein Production Plant. In the mid-1980s, before the U.S. belatedly banned such dangerous exports, Iraq's Education Ministry ordered 70 packages of microbes and toxins from the American Type Culture Collection, a nonprofit outfit in Rockville, Md. Included were flasks of freeze-dried anthrax spores. Iraqi labs reconstituted the spores in soy broth and put them into a small fermenter filled with a growth medium. The medium, Zilinskas says, "was imported from Europe and had nutrients that the anthrax bacteria needed to grow...
...congressional delegation to demand retaliatory action. Before last week's Senate hearing, Weber and Downey met privately with Judiciary Committee members, arguing that federal interference would stifle the high-tech industry's fabled spirit of innovation at the behest of a bunch of whining marketplace losers. A consulting outfit called the Strategic Alliance Group devised a clumsy plan to buff Microsoft's image by wooing consumer groups away from Nader's interventionist cabal, lobbying the six state attorneys general now looking into Microsoft and recruiting public officials deemed potentially sympathetic. "We could readily enlist [Wisconsin Governor] Tommy Thompson and others...
...plastic bag--picking up all the pens, coffee cups, mugs, slinkies, highlighters, squishie balls and other fun things the companies were passing out. Disney's Mickey Mouse pencils definitely ranked in the top five free recruiting gifts, but the prize went to CapitalOne, some sort of financial outfit. Their recruiters baked homemade chocolate chip cookies. In a world of blue pinstripe, that's originality...
...muted rhythms of "The Flower Called Nowhere" subsided, a voice from the anonymity of the crowd requested, "Take me to your laboratory!" Murmurs flittered through the previously subdued crowd as if some unspeakable sanctity was breached--but Stereolab remain unphased. The usual "merci beaucoup" followed, and the six-person outfit continued their audio exploration...
...Obviously our style of play was a big factor in the outcome," said junior defender Lee Williams. "Cornell was a stronger outfit than B.U., and its system gave us problems. We all knew B.U well, and were familiar with the way they played, but Cornell was an unknown outfit. It took us a long time, most of the game, to get used to their style. That made a huge difference...