Word: slaughters
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Confrontations like these between Kurds and Arabs are threatening to make Kirkuk, Iraq's fifth largest city, the world's new Sarajevo, a site of ethnic cleansing and slaughter. Though Assi's encounter with Abdullah ended without bloodshed, at least two gun battles in the city have together left more than a dozen people dead. The trouble is rooted in Saddam's policy of moving fellow Arabs into the Kirkuk area to squeeze out the frequently rebellious native Kurds. The main objective was to secure Baghdad's control over Kirkuk's oil, which represents 6.4% of the world's known...
...Timothy Slaughter, one of the ten HCL employees affected by last Monday’s announcement, said the layoffs have jeopardized his family’s long term economic security...
...Senarong adjourned the trial to allow more evidence to be collected. Interviewed after the trial, the judge said the person responsible for the shooting was actually another member of the group, Som Doeun, and that Nhim Sophea merely touched the trigger accidentally in a bid to prevent the slaughter. Whatever happened that night in October, few expect the prosecutors to find additional witnesses to bolster the case against Hun Sen's nephew. Says Sok Sam Oeun, executive director of the nongovernmental legal-aid organization Cambodian Defenders Project: "I don't think they will find enough evidence." The judge says...
McDonald's, the world's largest fast-food chain, said that by the end of 2004 it would stop using meat from animals that had been excessively treated with antibiotics. The decision may help curtail the practice of dosing healthy animals with antibiotics to plump them up for slaughter. Doctors hope this will reduce the opportunity for disease-causing bacteria, present in meat, to become resistant to drugs...
...paid record prices to buy cattle this fall but now will probably have to sell them to processors for far less than planned. There is not much feedlots can do to cut their costs; it takes a long time--120 to 200 days--to plump a cow for slaughter. "It's not like Ford, where you tell the workers to go home for a couple of days," says Robb. "You can't turn off cows." When the crisis erupted just before Christmas, cattle in Amarillo, Texas, were trading at $91 per 100 lbs. Three days later, the price had slipped...