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...began counter attacking ETA in 1983, killing a total of 27 people, most of them across the border in France, where ETA members frequently lie low after perpetrating their atrocities. The GAL toll is a drop in the ocean of blood shed by ETA - some 800 deaths in a reign of terror that has wracked Spain for more than three decades. The GAL operated about one tenth of that time, but what makes them so sinister is that they were not, as at first it appeared, a bunch of far-right fanatics fed up with the law's inability...
...sustainability, or the idea that you can make things without damaging people and planets. In Ford's case, this means creating worker-friendly, environmentally pure factories that make emissions-free cars. He hopes to kill off the carbon monoxide-spewing internal-combustion engine by the end of his reign...
...Benito's reign of terror created an untenable situation not only for those of us who had over the years constructed a modus vivendi with the established bullies, but also for those bullies themselves, who were now vulnerable to unthinkable humiliation at the hands of the brutish child...
...Crimson scored 45 points to finish behind Dartmouth and Brown, who tallied scores of 49 and 48, respectively. At the top of the standings, Penn ended Princeton's three-year reign as meet champions, scoring 136 points to the Tigers...
...center amid an unraveling in the provinces would certainly raise the temptation among the generals to reassert a more direct grip on power. And right now it's hard to imagine any of the alternatives to Wahid escaping the chronic instability and infighting that has dogged his reign...