Word: tensed
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It sure didn't look that way in 1989, after Lincoln bit the desert dust and Keating faced a series of highly publicized trials. Prosecutors vilified him as a high-living, white-collar sociopath, and he was convicted on no less than 90 federal and state counts of fraud, racketeering...
It's slightly oddball but deadly serious. The power of the powerless is shaking Eastern Europe again as tens of thousands of Bulgarians fill the streets of Sofia each day to show just how fed up they are with their government of national disaster, a batch of renamed but unreconstructed...
The scare died down after the British government destroyed tens of thousands of cattle, removed infected feed from the food chain and promised to step up slaughterhouse inspections. Mad-cow disease has stopped turning up in the new generation of cattle, and the crisis is generally considered to have passed...
That conclusion, however, may be premature. While public-health officials believe the risks are remote, concern is building in both Europe and the U.S. that the mad-cow problem may be larger than it seems. This week the science journal Nature published a paper on the possibility that last year...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Faced with the collapse of Atlantic fisheries and disturbing declines in the Pacific, the Clinton Administration said Friday it would impose strict regulations that could close many areas to fishing and significantly alter fishing practices in U.S. territorial waters. The cost has been severe. The cod populations of...