Word: smoked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Outside the smoke-filled Top Ten, where the Indonesian armed forces, or TNI, are fighting a bloody war against Acehnese separatists, a different military performance is being appraised, and with much less applause. Since the Suharto dictatorship collapsed in 1998, the Aceh conflict is viewed as one indicator of just how much the TNI has changed?or, more often, hasn't. For 32 years, the Indonesian armed forces propped up Suharto's hard-line rule with killings, torture and kidnappings, while senior officers grew rich from corrupt business deals and helped thwart political reform. By 1998, no institution...
...plan—which proudly boasts of a cap to noxious sulfur dioxide emissions—actually rolls back previous restrictions on coal-fired power plants. Moreover, the supposed cap is estimated by environmental groups to be too high to make any meaningful difference and acts instead as a smoke screen to protect heavy polluters. And if this meaningless cap were not enough to reject the “Clean Skies” initiative, there is also a clause in the bill that allows a system of “credits” so that older, pollution-heavy plants...
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club choose their stage effects to match their music. Wreathed in smoke and dressed in tastefully tattered black, the threesome conjure up a hurricane of sound so dense and vital you would swear they had another guitarist stashed away in the back, hidden behind the smoke machine. Guitarist Peter Hayes and bassist Robert Turner stoically grind out rock the likes of which has been neither seen nor heard for years...
...crowd and reenactors as the British gave an order for the Minute Men to withdraw. They did not move. The British advanced. And then a shot was fired. Volleys of fire criss-crossed the green and the Minute Men fled with British in pursuit. When the heavy amount of smoke cleared, eight colonials were dead. The Minute Men survivors returned to the green, the crowd gave a rousing cheer and everyone dispersed to pancake breakfast at Lexington’s local churches...
...smoke billowed from a MILAN SKYSCRAPER struck head-on by a small plane last week, the scene eerily recalled images of the World Trade Center attacks. But none of Italian authorities' theories about the CRASH, which killed the PILOT and two others, point to terrorism. Moments before hitting the 30-story Pirelli building, the pilot reported trouble with his landing gear to air-traffic controllers. If MECHANICAL FAILURE was not to blame, investigators speculated that he might have taken ill. A grimmer hypothesis was offered to an Italian newspaper by the pilot's son: that his father, in financial trouble...