Word: repeatable
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Preventing a Repeat. Whatever other trade-offs might be struck, the U.S. and its allies could press Saddam for concessions on his military capabilities: a drawdown of his troops, destruction of his chemical and biological weapons, inspection of his nuclear facilities to ensure that he is not building a bomb. Washington's position is that these measures could be enforced through a treaty. But, notes a senior British diplomat, "that is a hell of a difficult proposition." Such compromises would be extremely hard to win from Saddam through any means but a military defeat...
...weary Lebanese greeted the pullout warily. Fighting between rebellious militias scuttled efforts to unify Beirut in 1976 and 1984. Asked a commentator on a Beirut radio station: "What guarantees do we really have that history won't repeat itself?" The answer may come during the next phase of the peace plan, which calls for the government to disband the rival militias and implement a system that would address the concerns of both Muslims and Christians...
...authors explore many other reasons for Saddam's invasion. They repeat the same sentence six times in making their point. You can't miss the fact that Iraq only has 26 miles of natural coastline and Iraqis can only access the Persian Gulf through the Shatt al-Arab waterway which has been closed since the Iran-Iraq...
Asked to specify the statements he considered libelous, Bulger said, "Why should I repeat it? Some of the vile things. I don't want to repeat it. It's too vile and too rotten. It was not even part of the hearing. That hearing can never be understood unless it is understood in its full context...
...leaves painful memories of death and destruction. Yet, as George Santayana wrote, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Last week the clock ticked on for the opposing armies in the Persian Gulf, and some of the correspondents who covered Vietnam for TIME during the fighting there reflected on lessons from that conflict and how they might be applied to our coverage of the gulf crisis...