Word: standoff
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...speech to cataloguing Saddam's multiple and continuing infractions. UN weapons inspectors were withdrawn in 1998 after their work was frustrated by Iraq, ahead of a four-day punitive bombing campaign by the U.S. and Britain. The inspectors have not been allowed back since, and the resulting standoff has seen the UN sanctions regime crumbling, while substantial components of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons programs remain unaccounted for. Thus President Bush's exhortation to the international body to tackle Saddam's "contempt...
...Energy Agency to assess whether Pyongyang is living up to its promise to come clean on all of its nuclear programs, a process that could take several years. The U.S. and its partners want to begin soon. So far, Kim has refused to allow inspections to resume, and the standoff goes on. Says a Western diplomat: "The North Koreans are going to have to be viewed as extremely clean...
...Numbers 25 is the number of jobs oil company ChevronTexaco agreed to create for Nigerian villagers to end a standoff by local mothers demanding more posts for their sons $1 million is how much more the average U.S. college grad will earn in his lifetime compared to someone who only finishes high school, according to the Census Bureau 3 million teens seriously thought about or attempted suicide in 2000, says a survey by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, and only 36% received counseling $17.3 billion is the amount of money spent by the Federal Government...
After a three-hour standoff, Cambridge police officers fatally shot a man brandishing a hatchet in his East Cambridge home on Wednesday...
...standoff ended when police fired tear gas into the house, broke down the door and rushed inside. The officers opened fire on 59-year-old Daniel Furtado when he allegedly charged at them...