Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PAKISTAN? Even as it served as a cash conduit for terrorists, money launderers and gunrunners, B.C.C.I. may have financed the illicit development of nuclear weapons programs. The U.S. last week pressed efforts to extradite Inam ul-Haq, a retired Pakistani brigadier, on charges that he masterminded an abortive 1987 plot to smuggle to Pakistan an American speciality steel used to enrich weapons-grade uranium. B.C.C.I reportedly provided credit for the deal. But Pakistan, home of B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, denied -- as it has in the past -- that it seeks to develop nuclear arms, and said the government...
...this should be so is difficult to understand. Clancy's plot may be charitably described as complex, although "cluttered" or "give me a break" also come to mind. Ryan meets with White House officials awestruck by his brainpower. "I've heard of still waters running deep, fella," the National Security Adviser tells Ryan. "But never this deep." The Middle East comes up for discussion, and Ryan opines that the main problem in the area is . . . religion. The White House boys are dazzled. No one, apparently, has ever seen the conflict between Jews and Muslims in this light. Religion? And then...
...foolishness. They can join a conga line at Song of Singapore (1), play Heart and Soul with the nerdish vocal quartet in Forever Plaid (2), be a beauty- contest judge at Pageant (3), hum along at Forbidden Broadway 1991 1/2 (4), be a suspect in the whodunit plot at a Hasselfree murder mystery (5) or stand to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at Prom Queens Unchained (6). For warm- weather theatergoers in search of an easy evening out, the shows provide organized fun with a hip parodic wink -- a blend of summer camp and . . . summer camp...
...meter. But drop a quarter in and you get a lot more than 30 minutes of parking time. When a donor turns the handle of the modified meter, a mechanical red-throated hummingbird flies across a jungle scene, signaling that the donation will be used to save a small plot of tropical rain forest...
During his two-day visit to Turkey, George Bush watched whirling dervishes perform, sailed down the Bosporus and seemed calm and relaxed. That was pretty remarkable, considering that a few days earlier Turkish officials had foiled an elaborate plot to kill the U.S. President. Acting on information developed by Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, police mounted a series of raids on eight safe houses in Istanbul, killing 10 people and capturing 12 others involved in the attempt...