Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday, the first sortie of planes began bombing Bosnian Serb positions around Sarajevo. Artillery units of the rapid-reaction force, a multinational contingent assigned to protect U.N. convoys and peacekeepers, joined the attack. nato planes also struck Bosnian Serb targets near Gorazde and Tuzla, two other U.N. "safe areas." The warplanes focused first on the Bosnian Serbs' sophisticated air-defense network. Then they turned to ammunition depots and factories in Lukavica and Vogosca, surface-to-air missile sites throughout Bosnia, and the Bosnian Serb artillery sites ringing Sarajevo...
...full concert with his patron. "The Serbs are doing something very interesting, which is to draw attention to the fact that the U.N. is not being neutral in this war. Serbs have long complained that the Muslims can go out on sorties against them and then retreat to safe areas to be protected by the U.N. So with this, the Serbs are saying, OK, let's negotiate, but don't call a club a heart here -- let's acknowledge that the U.N. is not being neutral...
...Tennessee, where overcrowding led to riots and a federal-court takeover of the state prison system 10-years ago, the legislature recently got rid of ice-cream machines and cable TV. Lawmakers there have also approved a proposal to amend the state constitution, which currently requires Tennessee to have "safe and comfortable prisons.'' They want to drop the word "comfortable...
...patient to others who will. Unless a procedure calls for a new piece of medical equipment and thus falls under FDA jurisdiction--like a new laser to correct nearsightedness that is currently awaiting the agency's approval--it can become widespread without ever being definitively proved to be safe or effective...
...gritty particularity of the snake, the pigs and McCrae's irritation start things off right. It is acceptable for Augustus to be a hero--which he is, flat out--if his stage is a ridiculous outpost so man-, woman- and dog-forsaken that not even the rattlesnakes are safe...