Word: spotting
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...suite to cook them in, Zazi might have remained anonymous long enough to strike and kill, except that U.S. Homeland Security is a sharper instrument than it was in the summer of 2001. The dysfunctional system that failed to connect the dots before 9/11 managed, eight years later, to spot and disrupt a plot in progress. Zazi has denied charges he conspired to bomb targets in the U.S., but government officials are confident they've got their man. Authorities took notice when Zazi traveled last year to Pakistan, while his unsavory associations there - the FBI charges that Zazi attended terrorist...
...agency $100 billion. Half of that has already been spent. It's the other half the FDIC is having problems coming up with. As of the end of June, the FDIC had about $10 billion left in its insurance fund. That has put the FDIC in a tough spot. When a bank fails, it is up to the FDIC to guarantee that you'll get back the money (at least up to $250,000) you had in your checking account or savings account or certificate of deposit. If the FDIC fund ran dry, some worry that bank customers would...
...coup on June 28, so he had little choice but to let him into the embassy. But when Lula arrived in Manhattan, according to numerous sources, his irritation was plain. "He was taken by surprise and put in an uncomfortable position," says one Brazilian source. "Brazil was on the spot, in the center of the Honduran crisis. It's not what we wanted...
...avoids the harmful effects of chemicals while also reducing the use of irrigation, saving two million gallons of water a year. In addition, the new growing methods have turned around the health of plants afflicted with serious diseases, such as the orchards at Elmwood, which were suffering from leaf spot and apple scab...
...nose at the world may not help, since even the skeptical Russians suggested last week that further sanctions may be in order if Iran does not come clean about the secret facility and other older questions about Tehran's nuclear program. "The Iranians are in a very bad spot now because of this deception, in terms of all of the great powers," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told ABC News on Sunday...