Word: shoots
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...number of people needing this kind of help may be about to shoot up, goes this argument. That's because the time limit set by the 1996 act will soon kick in. It requires that those who have received benefits for five years be cut off from welfare for the rest of their lives. The act allows states to exempt as many as 20% of cases from the five-year limit--but that may not be enough to cover a state's entire hardest-to-place population...
...Israeli settlements isolated in Palestinian territory. "Barak would prefer a final status agreement before completing the troop withdrawal, because he believes isolating the settlements gives hard-liners on both sides an incentive to stir up trouble and jeopardize the process," says Beyer. Previous redeployments have prompted Palestinian militants to shoot at settlers and have spurred the settlers to expand their settlements. Barak knows he?ll have to dismantle some of the settlements as part of the final agreement, but believes a piecemeal Israeli withdrawal ahead of such an agreement is even riskier than confronting the settlers with a done deal...
...There?s obviously great concern that this could grow into a more serious conflict," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "With tensions already so high after the Kashmir crisis it?s disturbing that Indian jets would shoot down a propeller-driven Pakistani plane rather than force it out of their air space. Such an action looks calculated to increase tension rather than reduce it." Although Pakistan and India have developed extensive mechanisms to prevent their constant low-level clashes spiraling into war, the latest confrontation only widens the danger. Despite Pakistan?s withdrawal from the Indian side of Kashmir last...
...coastal border region, and has on numerous occasions forced unauthorized intruders to land. "Normal practice is for Indian planes to force intruders to identify themselves, order them out of the area, and force them to land if they don?t comply," says Rahman. "They?re only supposed to shoot down a plane once all those steps have been taken. Being a very professional air force, this is unlikely to have been the action of a trigger-happy pilot ? orders would have likely come from above, and that raises questions about what lay behind this incident." But right now, the tense...
...anything. I've forgotten that I have an expert partner who would save me if I were in any real danger. I'm trapped inside a boat in strong currents, far from home--a reckless fool. Then I give another mighty yank, and the skirt pops off. I shoot to the surface, a flustered human cannonball...