Word: splintered
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...then the opposition was morphing from inchoate splinter groups into something that looks like a mainstream coalition. In July 1999, some 40 environmentalists, consumer advocates and organic-food activists met in Bolinas, Calif., to map a national campaign. Rather than endorse the total ban on genetically modified foods that Greenpeace was pushing, says Wendy Wendlandt, political director of the state Public Interest Research Groups, "it was more practical to call for a moratorium until the stuff is safety tested and labeled, and companies are held responsible for any harmful effects...
...that Iran, rather than Libya, was the power behind the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing. In fact, Behbahani claims to have been personally involved in supervising the operation, alleging that it was carried out by Libyan operatives subcontracted for the job in conjunction with members of a Syrian-based Palestinian splinter group headed by super-terrorist Ahmed Jibril...
...answer is most assuredly no--not with our present philosophy. If a person really wants to kill another human being, it is going to happen; there is no way to stop a desperate person. We can pass no laws to prevent this. We're trying to remove a splinter by cutting the whole finger off. MICHAEL YERKE Houghton, Mich...
...difficulties they have with each other, one the provider and the other the dependent, are further complicated by the shared history with their parents and the individual need to raise their own children. As money becomes even more scarce, the long-repressed tension between them threatens to splinter the family...
...crime is in the specially constructed courtroom in the Netherlands. Twelve years after the bombing that killed 270 people (189 of them Americans), the trial finally got under way Wednesday with the men entering a not guilty plea, and offering a list of individuals connected with various Palestinian splinter groups as suspects. But the focus of the current trial is on proving the allegation that the two Libyan agents carried out the raid, rather than on whose orders they may have acted...