Word: strike
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...LEVIN, 91, epidemiologist; in Riverhead, New York. One of the first medical researchers to link tobacco and lung cancer, Levin tracked patients from 1938 to '50 and concluded in a 1950 Journal of the American Medical Association article that lung cancer was more than twice as likely to strike a smoker as a nonsmoker...
...would also hamper an operation. "The Muslims know that once the pullout is over, genocide is just around the corner," a Pentagon official says. "Hundreds of thousands will jam the roads, impeding our exit -- it's just going to be chaos." Serbs and Croats might also be eager to strike and plunder U.N. weapons...
Despite the talk of budget cuts, Reeves stillmanaged to strike an optimistic note, callingCambridge "an enchanted city in the Athens ofAmerica" and boasting of its $16 million annualbudget surplus...
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who would be the oldest president ever to assume the office if elected next year, has launched a pre-emptive strike on younger rivals who just can't resist sniping at his age. The GOP frontrunner's campaign has released a medical report that says he's in excellent shape for a man who will turn 72 Saturday -- with clear lungs and a normal heart and pulse, with good blood pressure and cholesterol kept in a normal range by medication. But is that enough? "Dole and his campaign are trying to be aggressive and proactive...
...Hong Kong, in the past few years Josa Santacruz Londono has rarely ventured outside Cali, Colombia's cocaine capital. In recent weeks, though, word leaked that the reputed mastermind behind the world's No. 1 drug cartel had fled to Bogota, flushed from cover by an elite government strike force that had been chasing him for months. Santacruz is sometimes called "El Gordo" -- the Fat One -- and knowing he likes to eat, General Rosso Josa Serrano Cadena, chief of the Colombian National Police, ordered his men to stake out several of the good restaurants in the northern part...