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...toward the Indian frontier for fear of an attack from New Delhi. Meanwhile, one of the Mumbai attackers mentioned Kashmir in a rambling interview with the India TV news channel during the siege - "Are you aware how many people have been killed in Kashmir?" he asked - immediately raising the specter of a link between militants in Kashmir and those in Mumbai...
...immeasurably in the diplomatic arena. In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were on the verge of agreeing to a “double-zero” deal in which both the U.S. and the Soviet Union would eliminate their entire nuclear stockpiles—and with them the specter of nuclear war at large. But Reagan’s refusal to surrender his “Star Wars” missile defense shield scuttled the agreement. More recently, the Bush administration’s decision to place missile interceptors in Poland led a Russian general to threaten a nuclear...
...audacious terrorist attack had seen MPs come under fire inside India's Parliament building. Some of the BJP's right-wing allies, such as the Shiv Sena, an influential Hindu-nationalist party in Mumbai, have a reputation for unleashing thuggery as standard political practice and, until last week, the specter of "Hindu terror" had been in national headlines following explicit threats by nationalist leaders and revelations that Hindu extremists had been behind a wave of terrorist attacks initially blamed on Muslims. "What would they have done had they been in power [during last week's attacks]?" asks MP Deora...
Despite Arvidson’s optimism, Jaeger did not rule out the specter of future layoffs...
Nope, it's the specter of a scary, skeletal, credit-crunched holiday season that has Brits collectively behaving like Scrooges, unmoved by the government's newly unveiled 20 billion pound fiscal stimulus package and a cut in value-added tax. And unless retailers persuade consumers that redemption - for individuals, for businesses and for the wider economy - lies in more generous spending, Britain's downturn threatens to be steep indeed. According to the British Retail Consortium, retail sales account for a fifth of the nation's economy, with the sector responsible for some 8% of GDP and employing 11% of Britain...