Word: withing
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For decades, ever widening patches of the Amazon have been burned or cut down by developers building towns, ranchers raising cattle, companies going after timber and settlers trying to grow crops. Mendes was among those forest dwellers who realized that their way of life was slowly being snuffed out. So...
Those familiar with the Mendes case, including the lawyers, believe the verdict is in. "I would be very surprised -- shocked, is more like it -- if the jury does not find them guilty," says Marcio Thomaz Bastos, the chief prosecutor. Defense lawyer Joao Lucena Leal considers acquittal so unlikely that he...
DOUG WILDER (5-6). Virginia rules prevent another run as Governor, so he has nothing to lose by going for the top post. May wind up in exacta with better- known candidate. Could be reckless in the stretch.
As the potential for war in the Persian Gulf has heightened, the debate about U.S. policy has come to hinge largely on two questions. Can sanctions really cripple Iraq? And even if they can, will that be enough to persuade Saddam to leave Kuwait? Those questions are dissolving the once...
Significantly, Webster said that if military force did eventually become necessary, the passage of time would favor the anti-Saddam alliance because Iraq's war machine would have deteriorated so badly. That view contrasted sharply with the one put before the same House committee two days earlier by Secretary of...