Word: standoff
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...ongoing project in Abu Dhabi to develop a standoff land-attack missile system for the emirate's fleet of Mirage 2000s is being financed by B.C.C.I...
...year standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union tended to reinforce long-established boundaries no matter how artificial or unwelcome they were to the locals. Any attempt to redraw the map might lead to superpower intervention, hence superpower confrontation. No one wanted that...
With prestige and profits at stake, the dispute became a standoff. Finally, in 1987 the French and U.S. governments agreed that the two labs should share credit and split the royalties generated by patented AIDS blood tests. But doubts remained. A lengthy investigation in 1989 by the Chicago Tribune raised once again the possibility that Gallo had stolen his competitor's work and prompted Michigan Congressman John Dingell to call upon the NIH to investigate Gallo for possible misconduct...
Similar secessionist fever in Croatia, meanwhile, nearly erupted in war when Belgrade accused Croatian defense minister Martin Spegelj of fomenting an armed insurrection. Federal troops were called in, and a tense standoff was resolved only when Croatia agreed to demobilize -- but not disarm -- its police reservists. Unrepentant, Slaven Letica, an aide to Croatian president Franjo Tudjman, declared, "If it comes to civil war, Croatia is willing to fight and confident that it will prevail...
...world's attention has been riveted by the standoff in the Persian Gulf since Iraq seized its small, oil-rich neighbor 6 months ago, setting the stage for a confrontation with the might of an allied coalition led by the United States...