Word: striking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that really happened in Iraq is that we brought the target closer to them--there are Americans walking around there right now. It's not that the war generated terror, it just provided an easier target. All these other people who normally would not have had the opportunity to strike out against American targets now have them close by. Iraq has become a magnet. But these are people with divergent opinions about the world. There are staunch secularists and nationalists together with vehement Muslim fundamentalists. It would not surprise me if these people ended up fighting one another, which...
...terror. In the past year Israeli forces claim to have caught or killed 120 Palestinians with plans to head from Nablus to Israel to carry out a suicide bombing. Dan, 27, the burly commander of the reconnaissance unit of the Israeli army's Nahal Brigade, knew he had to strike fast. By the time his men could make it to Nablus, about 10 miles to the east, it would be nearly daybreak--and by then it might be too late. "If you're going after a suicide terrorist, you have to get to him immediately," he says. "Or else...
According to union activists, Saturday’s protests kicked off an intensification of pressure on Yale officials to end the strike...
...SoBig struck, feds descended on the teenage author of another virus like Elliot Nesses for the Matrix age, and one righteous New York Times letter-writer went so far as to compare that young coder to a fanatical terrorist. The creators of SoBig remain at large, and may well strike again, but one thing is certain: whoever they are, they are most likely neither Al Capone nor Muammar el-Qaddafi. Everyone whimpering about the destruction SoBig has caused should take a deep breath and learn to enjoy a little chaos...
...record industry needed to strike a deal with Napster to co-opt its user base into a high quality pay-for-play service. Now that they have forced the users into a plethora of decentralized services, there is no good solution left. The recording industry will now continue to hemmorhage money for quite some time. James Sweet Rochester...