Word: weaponeering
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During the team’s trip to California last month, Kennifer logged three hat tricks and posted 11 goals in six games. But the reigning Northern Division Rookie of the Year, who also recorded seven steals during that stretch, has hardly been Harvard’s only offensive weapon. In the team’s most recent game—a 10-8 loss to Marist—it was freshman Aisha Price who recorded the hat trick and sophomore Shannon Purcell who added two goals...
...crews of the two Apaches can be heard speaking about a handful of men, saying some are armed with AK-47s and one with a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher, although it's not clear from the video as released that such weapons are being carried. For alleged insurgents carrying weapons while a U.S. attack helicopter circles overhead, the men seem remarkably nonchalant, strolling unhurriedly along a Baghdad street. After getting command approval to attack the armed group, an initial volley from an Apache's 30mm cannon blows some of them apart. An Apache crewman says...
...open society, we need common values and we need equal rights and duties," he says. Bacquelaine estimates the burqa is worn by only a few hundred of Belgium's 630,000-strong Muslim population, but the numbers have been rising in the past decade. "It has become a political weapon," he says. "There is nothing in Islam or the Koran about the burqa. It has become an instrument of intimidation, and is a sign of submission of women. And a civilized society cannot accept the imprisonment of women." (Read an argument against the veil by Azadeh Moaveni...
...man’s hand came out without the weapon, and Ellison pulled him out of the car through the open window. Crisis averted...
...Iranians are determined to have a nuclear program," Powell told interviewer Judy Woodruff. "Notice I did not say a nuclear weapon. But they are determined to have a nuclear program, notwithstanding the last six or seven years of efforts on our part to keep them from having a nuclear program...