Word: weaponeer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...scène seems far too obvious. After all, Litvinenko was poisoned with Polonium 210, which is 250 million times more toxic than cyanide. In order to get this obscure substance experts said one needs access to a nuclear laboratory. And the only reference to it as a weapon was found in a 1994 paper only published in, you guessed it, Russian. But even more importantly, why would the quite professional Russian secret services murder someone slowly, giving them over three weeks to blame them, and do it with a substance that could only point in their direction...
...Yunus successfully demonstrated how microcredit can be a means of alleviating poverty and empowering women. An impossible idea turned out to be a practical weapon in the fight against the extreme poverty of those in Southeast Asia and other Third World areas. Yunus' goal of reducing poverty by half by 2015 will require the commitment and cooperation of development partners and the unequivocal support of local governments. Dhiraj Kumar Nath Dhaka, Nigeria...
...Pelosi has also found a way to make her gender a weapon in political combat. She was one of the loudest voices demanding an investigation into what G.O.P. leaders knew of the sexually explicit instant messages that Congressman Mark Foley, who has since resigned, was sending to congressional pages. While Republicans booed her on the House floor, Pelosi insisted "as a mother and a grandmother" on putting the question to a recorded vote...
Yunus successfully demonstrated how microcredit can be a means of alleviating poverty and empowering women. An impossible idea turned out to be a practical weapon in the fight against the extreme poverty of those in Southeast Asia and other Third World areas. Yunus' goal of reducing poverty by half by 2015, however, will require the sustained commitment and cooperation of development partners and the unequivocal support of local governments...
...terrorists in Iraq be deterred by mutual assured destruction, as the Russians were? Can we defense-spend them into oblivion? If we cut and run in Iraq, it will be annexed by Iran, a larger share of the world's oil will be used as a weapon against the U.S., a Shi'ite majority will have free rein to commit genocide against Sunnis and Kurds, and the Shi'ites will have more money to buy arms for Hizballah. Jose Ramirez Lindenhurst, New York...