Word: soiled
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...security advisers for such information. But Idris's complaint notes that U.S. officials steadily backed away from some of the allegations about the factory and its owner made in the weeks following the strike, eventually basing their justification for the attack primarily on the claim that a soil sample collected near the plant contained traces of EMPTA, a chemical compound used in the manufacture of VX nerve gas. That's why Idris's lawyers commissioned research institutes in Boston and the Netherlands to independently examine samples taken from the ruins of the plant, which experts agree would likely still contain...
What does this man have to do to get our attention? We've seen that winning the grueling Tour doesn't translate into instantaneous celebrity on American soil; heck, Greg LeMond won it three times, twice after being shot during a hunting accident, and mentioning his name in most sports bars will get you nothing more than a blank stare...
...deployment of a missile shield by 2003, saying there was no threat justifying such a deployment. But in 1998, North Korea test-fired the Taepo Dong-1, a long-range, three-stage missile that indicated Pyongyang was well on its way to building a missile capable of reaching U.S. soil. And so, last year, Clinton signed the National Missile Defense Act into law. It calls for the construction of an antimissile system "as soon as technologically possible...
OLUDENIZ, Turkey--After spending the first 19 years of my life with my feet firmly planted on American soil, I embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. In a whirlwind two-week tour, I would see London and then travel to Turkey to sail the Mediterranean isles of the southern coast. It was marvelous...
...make the Montenegrin leader liable for arrest if he tried to campaign in Serbia. But rejecting the constitutional changes and pressing on toward independence, as many of his supporters want Djukanovic to do, would demand that the Montenegrin government prevent Yugoslavia's presidential elections from taking place on its soil. And that would give Milosevic a pretext to send in his army - right on the eve of the U.S. presidential election, when nobody's going to be in a hurry to make new military commitments abroad. The combination of draconian political laws and a hopelessly divided Serbian opposition has left...