Word: typhoonous
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...wife of an all-powerful President, and is possibly a criminal to boot -- as she was reminded last week when she appeared in the Quezon City courthouse to post bail and undergo fingerprinting on tax fraud charges. Some unexpected events could also hurt an Imelda candidacy. The devastating typhoon that struck her native province of Leyte last week has triggered widespread anxiety about the country's dynastic political system among the superstitious masses. People say that the two widows are responsible for all the natural disasters -- and that only when they reconcile will the devastation...
...confirmed death toll was only six in the first few days, thanks to advance warnings and speedy evacuations. But great dangers remained. Fearing bigger explosions, officials ordered tens of thousands evacuated. An approaching typhoon, moreover, threatened to send destructive mudslides down the mountain. Whatever happens, the swift action by the government reflected the improving ability of scientists to monitor volcanic activity and identify the telltale events that presage eruptions...
Barring a typhoon in the Sea of Japan or a full-scale war in the Persian Gulf, a squadron of American warships will steam into Vladivostok's Golden Horn harbor this week for the first visit by the U.S. Navy in more than 50 years. Last week, while a pinafored band practiced The Stars and Stripes Forever in Revolution Square, Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze was a few blocks away, addressing a conference of about 100 experts on Asia from 19 countries. "Not bad for what is still officially classified as a closed city," remarked Vladimir Kuznetsov, the provincial governor...
Amid this typhoon of claims and counterclaims, Federal Judge Richard Kellam must decide whether the salvage rights won by the robot lead to ownership or merely a finder's fee. And perhaps a bottle...
Back in 1983, before Gorbachev, before glasnost, before perestroika, there was, it seems, Captain Marko Alexandrovich Ramius, commander of the Soviet Typhoon-class submarine Red October. Since he is played by the estimable Sean Connery in this movie version of Tom Clancy's hurricane-class best seller, you know he can't be a hard-liner -- a stern-liner, maybe, but never a hard-liner...