Word: standoff
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...investment job, that might be an indication that he's putting his political ambitions on hold. On the other hand, Powell's rough engagements with the new President suggest a man who is establishing a public identity for himself that goes beyond the portfolio of a military leader. The standoff over gays in the military has left some bitterness in the Clinton camp among senior officials who think that the general was guilty of something close to insubordination. In a meeting with Clinton after the election, Powell repeated his personal objection to lifting the ban. But the President-elect left...
...NOTE THAT testified by its denomination alone to decades of misrule in Zaire: 5 million zaires, valued at a purported % $2. The bill was floated by the country's long-ruling and long-embattled dictator Mobutu Sese Seko -- and was promptly declared worthless by his rival in a power standoff, transitional Premier Etienne Tshisekedi. Most merchants refused to accept the disputed tender. When Zairian soldiers were paid with it, they went on an armed rampage, looting shops and the homes of several thousand Europeans who live in the former Belgian colony...
...would set up a private army, the Antioquia Rebel Movement, to counter the "barbaric methods" of special antinarcotics police forces. The government dismissed the threat as an attempt by Escobar to portray himself as a political -- rather than a criminal -- outlaw, another ploy to cut a deal. The continued standoff is leading to a new wave of violence. Late last week two car bombs exploded in Bogota, injuring about 20 people. Police are blaming Escobar and say it's a warning that things will get worse...
Once the nature of the approaching object is determined, explains physicist Edward Tagliaferri, a U.S. space program consultant, "it becomes easier to decide if you want a standoff explosion, a surface explosion or a subsurface explosion," If the asteroid or comet is small, it can be vaporized with a subsurface explosion, but for larger bodies, says Tagliaferri, "you'll probably have to nudge them into a new orbit." For an asteroid consisting largely of iron, he says, "you'd probably want to have a surface explosion...
...Bush rushes to finish his presidency and define his legacy with a flurry of foreign policy activity--intervention in Somalia, the Start II treaty with Russia, a final standoff with Iraq--Walsh is unlikely to let either Bush or the American people forget the Iran-contra scandal and cover...