Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assigned a small number of animals who have separated from the main group, and almost at once she stumbles on big news. Peaceful primates? Strictly sloganeering. The chimps are capable of killing and cannibalism. Before long, she realizes that a kind of genocide is occurring, the destruction of the splinter group...
...Bush's advisers fear that if some loose combination of rebels won, they would not be able to exercise effective control over the institutions dominated by Saddam's fellow Sunni Muslims -- the army, the security police and the Baath party -- that have kept Iraq together. The country could well splinter into rival fragments that might be gobbled up by neighboring Iran, Syria and Turkey, leading to instability throughout the Middle East. Or the rebels might provoke other multi-ethnic states to splinter. The Kurds, for example, have said they seek only autonomy within a federated Iraq, but American officials think...
...story of the turtles' birth certainly strays from the superhero script. They started out as aquarium pets, but mutated after falling into a pool of radioactive glop in a New York sewer. They were raised by a rat, Splinter, who taught them Ninja skills to fight crime...
Eastman speculated kids are attracted to the turtles because of "the family attitude with the four brothers and Splinter playing the father figure and the teacher...
...fears were not only military. Diplomatic experts warned that a provocation of Saddam could only lead to attacks on Israel, which undoubtedly would spark reprisals and perhaps an Arab-Israeli war. This would splinter Bush's fragile coalition (if only for reasons of domestic dissent within Arab members of the coalition) and spur Arab support for Saddam Hussein...