Word: unraveling
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...cell may be in contact with individuals here in the U.S. We are concerned there may be copycats." Finding them won't be easy. The London bombers were what law-enforcement officials call "cleanskins" - people with little or nothing on their records to raise suspicion. How investigators managed to unravel some of the main elements of the London plot last week is the story of advanced forensics and furious, old-fashioned legwork involving thousands of police, security and intelligence officials. It is from these clues that investigators are racing to assemble a picture of how al-Qaeda may have pulled...
...fried in a pan. Scramble an egg; toss a salad. I think that the industrial food industry, the processed food industry, has spent a lot of money and has been very effective in convincing us that cooking is something difficult, some sort of archaic knowledge that is hard to unravel...
While Reagan and Gorbachev seem not to have succeeded in cutting any of the knots in arms control, they may have bought some more time for their negotiators to continue trying to unravel the strings. Here is where the symbolic success, and the resulting improvement in atmosphere, can be important. Now that the two smiling leaders have displayed so publicly their determination to pursue arms control, it is harder to imagine their more hard-line advisers' scuttling the process. Just as Reagan has his hawks who would like to see SDI provide a pretext for abandoning past agreements and blocking...
...main story line is sturdily intact, Dickens' cry of outrage at society's injustice is heard loud and clear, and some memorable characters are brought to glorious life. Rigg, as Lady Dedlock, is a model of aristocratic propriety starting to crack as her world threatens to unravel. Suzanne Burden as the heroine, Esther Summerson, is just as sweet, sensible and faintly dull as Dickens portrayed her. Den-holm Elliott, as Esther's kindly guardian John Jarndyce, invests a quiet role with remarkable compassion and grace...
...sessions were supposed to end on Sunday morning, but with the chance of an agreement of historic proportions in sight, the two sides met on into the evening. It was only after sunset that the optimism began to unravel. To the Soviets, every element of the deal, it seemed, hinged on the curtailment of Star Wars. When that proved impossible, there was nothing left to do but offer grim handshakes and go home. The original purpose of the meeting--to set a date for a full-scale summit in the U.S. and work out a frame work for an agreement...