Word: apparatus
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...while the apparatus of election night is being removed, the question of the victor--and the recount--is hardly disappearing...
...constructed an experimental apparatus that used sensors to track their eye movements. To do this, he had to anesthetize the pigeons and implant electrodes on their skulls...
Wires ran out of their heads into tiny pigeon "backpacks," and from there into his measuring apparatus...
...nine months before his term was up in order to trade on popular resentment of the West's endless sanctions and last year's NATO bombing campaign to drive Serb troops out of Kosovo, where they were persecuting ethnic Albanians. Milosevic expected his control of the media, the security apparatus and the electoral machinery to produce victory. He thought the opposition, torn by perpetual infighting, was a shambles. He never anticipated Vojislav Kostunica...
...from a monolith into a weird, militarized soap opera, and it seemed no one, perhaps not even Fujimori, understood how the plot was unfolding. Was the President still running the show? Was he resigning, as he suddenly promised? Would he, as he declared, really clean up the thuggish security apparatus that had done so much to blacken his administration's name? Would the nation's powerful military back him or revolt...