Word: acte
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...principal trouble spots are the shock-absorbing disks between the vertebrae and the facet joints, at the back of each vertebrae, that act as brakes to rotation. Each disk is a round ligament, made up of an annulus, which is like a multilayered collagen basket that absorbs rotational stress, and a lighter-density liquid nucleus that absorbs compression. The layers of the annulus are woven for maximum absorption. But it doesn't take much to tear this basket. "You can tear the annulus with no more than 3[degrees] of sudden loaded rotation," Watkins says. "If the disk ruptures into...
...white cockatoos uttering their first tentative dawn screams, the rainbow lorikeets. A hawk sails over, and a mob of kangaroos hop by. A new day, the merest crumb of eternity, has begun. To see this is to love Australia; it is to become more Australian, even in the act of sensing your own insignificance in the vast, indifferent timescale of the desert...
...There are times you will disagree with me," hetold a Sunday morning meeting of the NorthernGrafton County Republican Committee in Franconia,N.H., "But I promise I will always act out ofprinciple, and I will never embarrass...
...legal department at Citigroup will be so relieved. The House of Representatives on Thursday night finally passed a bill that sweeps away the outdated taboos of the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act. After a year of lobbying to protect its very existence ?- the epochal $70 billion merger between Citibank and Travelers Group last spring is technically against the law ?- the walls between banking, securities and insurance companies appear at last to be tumbling down...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataThat is, if the Senate, the House and President Clinton can get their collective act together. Democrats are squawking that the House version doesn?t do enough to help poor neighborhoods and minorities get the service they need from reluctant insurers; Clinton says the Senate version takes too much regulatory turf away from the Treasury Department. Now the negotiators take over ?- and Wall Street is salivating at the prospect of a deal. When Citigroup?s model of one-stop financial shopping becomes officially available to the rest of the corporate herd, get ready for a merger...