Word: slaughters
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...Terror Comes From Within At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, a bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Its scenes of carnage unleashed fear, anger and sorrow across the nation - as well as an astonishingly swift quest for the suspected perpetrators of the slaughter. America had already learned to expect terror from beyond its borders. Now the country must deal with another reality: the monsters it has bred...
...UNITED KINGDOM Restoring Control The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease showed signs of slowing in Britain last week. Only four new cases were confirmed on Friday, leading experts to believe that the pre-emptive slaughter of thousands of animals was bringing the epidemic under control. The encouraging signs caused the government to delay a decision on whether to vaccinate still healthy herds in the most severely affected areas. Prime Minister Tony Blair was under pressure to postpone local elections, called for May 3, until later in the year...
What happened to the bloodbath? After a market-wide slaughter Tuesday - nearly 300 points in the Dow and more than 100 in the NASDAQ - Wednesday suddenly turned into the sell-off that wasn't. The turnaround struck at 10:30 a.m., sending the Dow back from below 9400 up to 9580 at 11:30, with the NASDAQ staging a little bounce...
...avenge the loss, the Crimson women came back to slaughter Connecticut College, 10-2. More a contest of team depth than of skill, Harvard overpowered the Camels' defense from the outset. Of the 10 Harvard goals, freshman Liz Anderson and sophomore driver Arianne Cohen, also a Crimson editor, contributed seven. Sophomore driver Kate Callaghan also came away from the game with an imposing total of six steals...
...Francis Gagnon, the arrival of foot-and- mouth disease in France has been a saga of bureaucracy and needless slaughter. On March 16, some 40 armed police and 18 veterinary workers in white coats and rubber boots showed up at 6:45 a.m. on his farm in the Burgundy village of Tannerre-en-Puisaye. After police sealed off the farm, the men in white entered his barn and systematically injected a fast-acting poison into more than 833 of his sheep, many of them newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes. "No one could move without permission," says Gagnon. "Everyone...