Word: solider
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...their Oct. 30 referendum, half of Quebeckers--and a solid 60% of French speakers--said they want out of their partnership in a culturally diverse Canada. Why? For the answer, Americans might look no farther than Louisiana...
...that Yeltsin's future is clouded, next month's vote looms even larger on the political calendar. The Russian Communist Party is leading in public-opinion polls and could forge a solid majority against Yeltsin's reforms, if it joins forces with the Congress of Russian Communities, the party of General Alexander Lebed, whose patriotic views have made him the most popular candidate nationally. Yet currently the Communists seem to find this proposition far more enticing than Lebed, who has described his potential partners as "kind of slippery...
Last week, though, the hard data finally arrived. Nielsen Media Research--the folks who do the famous Nielsen TV ratings--unveiled the results of what seems to be the first solid, scientific survey of the Internet, or at least the portion of it that covers the U.S. and Canada. Most earlier surveys relied on figures obtained through questionnaires or by counting the number of Internet host computers and multiplying that by an estimated number of users per host--a fudge factor that is particularly difficult to measure when an Internet host computer can be anything from a single workstation...
...that the lack of solid data seems to have stopped anybody from angling for a piece of the Internet action before now. "I have never seen so much money invested by so many people with so little information," says O'Reilly vice president Dick Peck. The new studies should accelerate the rush of media companies and other businesses to stake claims on the Internet, particularly on the upscale multimedia neighborhoods of the World Wide...
Barnes says that Israeli police have been sweeping the settlements, questioning anyone who knew Amir, but have yet to find solid signs of a plot to kill Rabin. "I think the police were simply taken by surprise that Jews kill other Jews and are cracking down out of frustration," says Barnes. "The interesting thing is that Amir fits the profile of a lot of terrorists. He's a loner and a former soldier who seemed especially sensitive to the rhetoric of the radical right. Just like Timothy McVeigh, the man charged with blowing up the Oklahoma federal building. I think...