Word: using
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...ultimately prove far more troublesome for the Olympics. In filing a wrongful-termination lawsuit, Dr. Wade Exum, director of the U.S.O.C.'s drug-control unit for nine years before he stepped down under pressure last month, charged among other things that his bosses systematically covered up illicit drug use. "In recent years, absolutely no sanction has been imposed on roughly half of all the American athletes who have treated positive for prohibited substances," Exum alleged. He said that his tests had turned up "scores" of athletes using strength-building testosterone but that no one had been punished. The U.S.O.C. said...
...Bush, who caught flak in the primaries for threatening to raise the ghost of the GOP's religious right, tends these days to limit his Bible-thumping to the use of faith-based organizations to do some of the government's work for it. It's a fine line that has mostly kept him out of trouble. The high quotient of religion in Lieberman's stump act, meanwhile, has civil libertarians worrying about separation and Christian conservatives wondering if Lieberman, as a Jew, is getting a free ride where Baptists fear to tread...
...CANDIDATE] 3 Duke [PROS] Past experience as Ambassador to China [CONS] Well-documented history of drug use [CANDIDATE] 4 Lex Luthor [PROS] Keen understanding of world domination [CONS] Killed his own parents THE AD-MASCOT RACE...
...still crop up unexpectedly. In March, a warning flare exploded in its launch tube in a submerged Navy submarine. The blast sheared a dozen bolts holding the launcher in place and let seawater flow into the bow compartment. There were no injuries, and the Navy has now barred the use of that kind of flare...
...Nigeria's debt - so long as it remains on the path to democracy - but his pleas may fall on deaf ears. After all, the White House told hundreds of visiting U.S. business executives and journalists to bring cash - preferably in the form of $100 bills - to avoid having to use their credit cards in scam-rich Nigeria. Foreigners' credit-card receipts often are seen as "legal tender" by unscrupulous Nigerians, who will use numbers plucked from receipts to buy goods for themselves...