Word: sprayings
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...fight against apartheid: At what point does opposition to Israeli policy slide into the mud fields of old-fashioned anti-Semitism? At U.C. Berkeley on the first night of Passover, someone threw a cinder block through the glass door of the campus Hillel center for Jewish students and spray painted the words F--- JEWS on the wall. Around the same time, Jewish students were assaulted on their way to or from campus. Though there's no evidence to suggest a link, the divestment campaign turned into an ugly scuffle two weeks later when 79 protestors (half of them students) were...
...Iraq was allowed to build only missiles that could fly no more than 93 miles. And during the 1998 U.S.-British air strikes, analysts caught a glimpse of previously unknown unmanned planes hidden in a bombed Iraqi hangar; they theorized that these were equipped with nozzles and tanks to spray deadly gases and toxins at low altitudes. The drones were jury-rigged clandestinely from Czech L-29 jet trainers legally bought years before...
...smuggling trail that Saddam leaves when acquiring equipment and material, which he does through hundreds of front companies scattered across the world. Key questions about Iraq's unseen war machine focus on so-called dual-use purchases: fermenters that can brew beer or biological agents, sprayers that can spray crops or chemical toxins, machines that can mold tools or missile parts. Since 1998, the CIA believes, on the basis of the kinds and quantities of purchases it has tracked, "the risk of diversion has increased...
Biological weapons present a scarier prospect. Iraq is believed to have fermentation equipment at animal-feed facilities near Baghdad and the ability to convert workaday centrifuges into Cuisinarts for whizzing up lethal agents. But weaponizing most pathogens so that airborne bombs can spray them effectively over large areas remains a challenge for Saddam's engineers. Nonetheless, a gram of anthrax could serve as a poor man's suitcase bomb: that's 1 trillion spores, enough for 100 million fatal doses. Hiding, transporting and disseminating that type of poison is relatively easy: no missiles are needed, just a crop duster, backpack...
Under Lafley, P&G has stopped swinging for the fences and is once again playing small ball, dreaming up countless "new and improved" versions of its classic brands like Tide, Charmin and Folgers, and developing line extensions like Pampers baby clothes and the forthcoming Old Spice body spray. "We had gotten into a mind-set where innovation had to flow into new categories and new brands exclusively, and all I did was open people's minds to [the possibility] that it could also flow through our established brands," Lafley says in his typically self-effacing style...