Word: storm
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Although many were delighted at the possibility of peace, others were shocked that Prime Minister John Major had been dealing with terrorists, especially leaders of the hard-line Ulster Protestants who reject any change in Northern Ireland's union with Britain. But the British government rode out the storm, arguing that it would have been remiss had it not responded to the I.R.A.'s overtures. Major insisted that he would only begin full negotiations after the I.R.A. had demonstrated that it had renounced terrorism permanently...
...harshest blow is the one struck against efficiency. the huge abatements boost corporate profits, but more significantly they encourage a highly costly and inefficient storm of corporate relocations, and inevitably, social dislocations. Companies don't become more efficient by moving; they merely enrich themselves on the extravagant bribes offered by local governments in order to buy jobs, and hence popularity...
USAir officials said the shuttles from La Guardia were on time in the afternoon but that some flights had been canceled. These cancellations were not because of the storm, officials said...
Barefoot and clad in shorts and a T-shirt,Edward Y. Park '97 said he was making the most ofthe storm...
...veterans' campaign for greater official recognition of the malady was bolstered last week when the Pentagon reversed itself and accepted a report from the Czech military indicating that some of its chemical sensors detected trace amounts of mustard gas and the nerve poison sarin in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. A team of U.S. experts determined that the Czech evidence was both reliable and convincing. The experts could not explain, however, where the toxins came from. "There were no Scud launches, no artillery exchanges, or no offensive actions at this time that could have delivered the chemical agents," Defense Secretary...