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Hundreds of bonfires fueled by cardboard, trash or debris provided the only heat for people who had spent the last four nights on the streets, and sent a pall of smoke over the city of 250,000 people...
...intifadeh, pressure from Muslims and Jews, and fears of emigration and community decline cast a pall on celebrations by Christians in the Holy Land...
...drug-related disqualifications at the Seoul Olympics, including the infamous demedaling of Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, have cast a worldwide pall over competitive athletics. Last week sports officials from 29 countries met in Borlange, Sweden, to draw up tough drug-testing proposals aimed at stamping out the use of anabolic steroids by athletes. If adopted by enough sports governing bodies, the recommendations could lead the way to making the use of steroids by top-ranking international athletes virtually impossible...
...Panama, as in Viet Nam, the Law of Unintended Consequences hangs over U.S. policy this week like a pall of smoke after the explosion of a misplaced bomb...
...moment at least, Apple has succeeded in casting a pall over the hundreds of independent software developers whom IBM is counting on to write programs that run in conjunction with the Microsoft product. Suddenly, they have to worry about whether the programs they are working on will be declared illegal. "For years Microsoft has been telling us Windows was safe," says - Philippe Kahn, president of Borland International, which has already spent nearly $1 million developing an information-retrieval program based on Windows. "It's like waking up and finding out that your partner might have AIDS...