Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Barbouti acknowledges that he was aware of the chemical plant, he says he is sure it was not designed to turn out chemical weapons. "In four years, sitting with the engineers and technical people on committees, nobody has mentioned or hinted that something secret is there," he says. In fact, he argues, one Rabta building, code-named Pharma 150 and reportedly the center for poison-gas manufacture, was not even included in his original design. "I draw the site plan myself -- my hand," declares Barbouti, adding that Pharma 150 was built sometime in 1987, after he completed his work...
...sure, there are no hidden tracks. If intelligence authorities want to interrogate Barbouti, they will find him in London, fingering his worry beads. It is unlikely they will discover that he broke any laws. He was, after all, a legitimate Iraqi businessman who happened to be Libya's middleman and who knew nothing about the manufacture of chemical weapons. He won't lie, but he may not want to tell the truth either...
...cultural misunderstanding and mistrust finding a flash point in Rushdie's novel. After Khomeini's call to murder, many Muslim leaders worldwide disagreed with the ferocity of his action, but none had a friendly word for Rushdie, his literary intentions or his right to free speech. To be sure, few of his prosecutors had read the book, as the author pointed out repeatedly; most seemed to feel they had learned enough from printed excerpts or merely word of mouth to convict the author of blasphemy compounded by apostasy, the crime of renouncing one's religious faith. In the Muslim faith...
...knew, would be an opportunity for a new assignment. He wanted his own command this time, free of senior patrons, such as Richardson and Baker. Though he lacked a strong relationship with Bush, he was soon an economic adviser. Darman's friends in the Bush camp made sure he had ample access; he capitalized on that by enthusiastically elaborating on the "flexible-freeze" scheme, the core of Bush's fiscal program...
...want to penalize young drivers for being accident prone (But why? They'll get older -- it all evens out), we can do that automatically too. Just include a surcharge on their driver's-license fees. Penalize city dwellers for their higher rate of claims? Sure, but do it automatically, by basing the amount of the deductible on the place the accident occurs: higher in cities, lower in the country. (This would also foil urban drivers who cheat by registering their cars in the boondocks...