Word: weaponeering
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...Ronald's murders, at about 10:20 p.m. -- more than an hour before O.J. headed for the airport. The defense offered some of its own drama by handing over a sealed package of "evidence," to be opened at an undetermined date. The scramble to find the murder weapon continues too; the prosecution seems set on proving it was a stiletto-type knife. Those were the most dramatic highlights of a day once again filled with legalistic volleys between prosecution and defense.Although the exchange between the battling attorneys is often excruciatingly dull, the Simpson saga continues to boost TV viewing...
...bowlegged kid with rickets had escaped the slums where he was born, how a football superstar had become a national icon, always outrunning his obstacles, finding daylight where there wasn't any. "I'll tell you," he used to say, "my speed has always been my best weapon. So if I can't run away from whatever it is, I don't need to be there...
...prosecutors were treating their celebrity suspect so delicately. First there were the bloody gloves -- one at the murder scene, one at O.J.'s mansion. Then there were the bloody clothes in his washing machine, and the ski mask, and the stains on his driveway and in his car. The weapon was an antique samurai sword, then a sharp-edged military entrenching tool, the newspapers revealed, before the district attorney announced that no weapon & had been found. He's killed himself, the Wall Street trading floors buzzed on Wednesday morning, before he appeared that afternoon at his ex-wife's wake...
When the goal is changing behavior rather than changing governments, the results are mixed. The U.S. has abandoned the trade weapon as a lever to improve human rights in China, yet years of sanctions helped end apartheid in South Africa. Even there, however, it was the possibility of revolution, which prompted foreign banks to stop lending for fear their money would be lost, that was mostly responsible for the white minority's finally ceding power. If, as it seems, North Korea's nukes have become central to the Kims' sense of themselves, no sanctions will deter their desire to expand...
Militance as well as membership is on the rise. Repeatedly defeated by ; fierce employer resistance -- especially the practice of firing strikers and hiring permanent, nonunion replacements -- unions had almost abandoned the strike weapon. Fewer than 4 million workdays were lost to strikes and lockouts in 1993, the lowest figure in the 47 years that the government has been keeping those statistics and less than one-fifteenth of the record 60.9 million in 1959. A comparison of the first four months of this year to the same period in 1993 shows that the number of workers on strike tripled...