Word: volley
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WASHINGTON -- Is nicotine a drug or not? Both Congress and the FDA need to know before they fire the next volley in the tobacco wars, and they are looking to science for guidance. Washington's prestigious Institute of Medicine will come to the rescue this week with a finding that nicotine is indeed addictive and should be regulated as a drug. But instead of a complete ban on cigarettes, the iom recommends raising the cigarette tax from 24 cents to a hefty $2 a pack...
Launching another rhetorical volley, the White House said its "patience is wearing thin" on the Haitian military junta's refusal to go gentle into exile. The Pentagon upped the invasion ante by announcing that seven cargo ships are being activated for possible use in a Haiti operation. Despite the fist shaking, TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson sees no indications the military has changed its time frame for a possible invasion in late September or early October. "Plainly an orchestration campaign is now under way," he says. And the White House's hair-trigger statements? "I suppose that's just smart...
Haiti's Justice Ministry, on orders of the military-backed government, began treason proceedings against exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide for backing foreign intervention to restore him to power. TIME correspondent Edward Barnes, in Port-au-Prince, says the "mock trial" is yet another verbal volley designed to make Haiti's rulers look like men of action -- when all they're doing is waiting to see if the U.S. will invade. "If this were a card game," he says, "there's only one card left, and that's the ace": invasion. Meanwhile, Barnes reports, the U.S.-led embargo is proving...
...career. She has left her mark as indelibly as Billie Jean King, who introduced emotion and brio to the game, and Chris Evert, whose legacy includes killer concentration and the two-fisted backhand. Navratilova's gifts may be even more significant. She elevated serve and volley tactics to a higher level on the women's tour and made it fashionable for women to display muscle tone. Even traditionalist Evert began to pump iron after Martina showed...
What she still has is a surgeon's touch with the drop volley and the ability to cut off return angles with quick rushes to the net. Her serve has diminished to a mortal 97 m.p.h. Mortal, that is, when compared with her serve of five years ago. But what's a flaw or two when the achievement itself can never be erased by the passage of time...