Word: felling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...ghost of Alan Greenspan even chipped in, maybe for the last time before November - housing starts plummeted 7.5 percent in July, way more than expected, and two other inflation measures fell similarly. Psychologically, investors have to be convinced now that Greenspan is on the sidelines - and that clears the way for an upbeat fall season...
...always seems more gruesome when it is in slow motion, and slow-motion submarine deaths are perversely compelling because they happen in shallow water within reach of rescuers. Men who have been trapped in stricken submarines say the crew of the Kursk would have suffered from cold as temperatures fell to 41[degrees]F and from severe headaches as levels of carbon dioxide rose in the smothering atmosphere. They would have suffered too from fear and hopelessness as rescuers repeatedly tried, and failed, to save them. "Those guys can hear the minisubs," said a U.S. Navy officer. "Listening to that...
What caused the loss of the Kursk remained unclear. Russian officials fell back on old Soviet habits of secrecy and confusion during the first days of the disaster. They made no announcement for two days, then issued a bland statement that there had been a "technical fault" and the boat was on the sea bottom. After the seriousness of the accident became clearer, Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev declared that there was "incontrovertible evidence" that the sub had collided with another vessel. In past years Soviet and U.S. vessels have had near collisions while spying on each other, but the Pentagon...
...First, John Richter, a veteran weapons designer at Los Alamos, told Parker that the data Lee had downloaded would not harm U.S. security, even if it fell into the hands of a foreign power, adding that 99 percent of the information was available in open scientific literature. Which hardly made Lee, who will likely be under something resembling house arrest, seem like a threat to pass along those eight missing tapes to the Chinese and create a situation in which "hundreds of millions of people could be killed," as U.S. attorney George Stamboulidis put it last week...
...told us that he'd almost been married but broke off the engagement. He said it was to be a half-million-dollar wedding.... At the end of the night, after his barstool curiously slipped out from beneath him and he almost fell to the floor, he wrote his e-mail, phone number and address on a napkin. He said he lived in the Village I think but I've thrown out the napkin. By the way, at one point in he night I'd asked him for his card. He said he wasn't carrying any with...