Word: swats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...choice, tune to CNN on Saturday, Dec. 26, at 9 p.m. EST. "It is our mission," says CNN executive producer Stacy Jolna, "to keep TIME's secret safe and to translate the Man of the Year cover story into a compelling television production." Working with Jolna was a special "SWAT team" of half a dozen secret operatives who spent the past three weeks culling the best sound and pictures from thousands of hours of videotape to put together this year's show. Viewers will learn not only the identity of the 1992 Man of the Year but also...
...mission is not to be a free speech SWAT team, so to speak," Sandel said. Instead, he said the committee will try "to foster discussion and debate on broad issues of free speech...
...noise? Its usefulness from the human point of view is obvious. But what is its survival value from the mosquito point of view? Why in the world would these otherwise canny creatures go to the trouble of evolving a behavior so ideally suited to helping their prey find and swat them...
FLANKED BY 200 OTHER POLICE AND FBI AGENTS, INcluding a shotgun-toting swat team -- and TV camera crews, to be sure -- police chief Daryl Gates elatedly joined in the arrest of three suspects wanted for the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny at the outset of the Los Angeles riots. Leading the 2 a.m. raid into South Central with flak jacket and side arm, Gates personally collared one of the suspects, Damian Williams, whose nickname is "Football," and escorted him into a squad car. "Chief Gates, you're going!" Williams told the retiring police chief, according to what Gates recounted...
...fires started during the rioting raged out of control, since police protection was unavailable for those fighting the blazes. By Friday, some 4,000 members of the California National Guard took up positions in the city; President Bush announced that 6,500 federal forces, including fbi and swat units and contingents of the infantry and Marines, were prepared to help restore order. But the toll of deaths, injuries, property destroyed and hopes blasted mounted. And similar, though smaller, demonstrations and outbursts of violence hopscotched across...