Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...HUPD dispatched an officer to a Business School parking lot after a parking gate arm was damaged when it came down prematurely on a motor vehicle. The vehicle was also damaged...
...clock in the morning when my wife, 48 hours past her due date with our first child, gave my arm a sharp pinch. "The baby is coming," she whispered. She was in labor, and all the things we had talked about for 40 weeks and two days were happening all at once. Luckily, she had taken the time to make a birth plan, which forced us to discuss ahead of time such issues as pain management and what to do if her labor failed to progress. As we drove to the hospital a few hours later, that was our biggest...
...side, he provides similar services for his slumlord father, who's fading into senility. His late mother, however, was a famous pianist whose talent he has inherited. One day he encounters her agent, who encourages his return to the keyboard. Soon his fingers are flying--and his strong arm is beginning to atrophy...
...comeback with a caveat, however. Acer is prospering because it no longer makes computers?or anything else. Since Wang took over as Acer's president in 2000, the company has undergone a no-prisoners downsizing that jettisoned all of Acer's electronics manufacturing operations. The computer-making arm and contract manufacturing businesses were spun off and renamed Wistron. The consumer-electronics division became BenQ, and an LCD maker became AU Optronics. The new Acer exists primarily as a computer design, distribution and marketing company that hires contract manufacturers such as Taiwan's Quanta Computer to ship Acer-branded machines from...
...Nancy Reagan listened, the leg of her chair slipped off the edge of the platform, and she pitched into a row of potted yellow chrysanthemums. "I'm all right," she hurriedly reassured everyone. "I just wanted to liven things up." She regained her seat, and Horowitz put a protective arm around her. "This is why I did that," said the First Lady, smiling at Horowitz and accepting a gallant Old World hand kiss as guests clapped. "Honey," riposted the President, "I told you to do it only if I didn't get any applause...