Word: arming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SAYS ALL COMPUTER KEYBOARDS HAVE TO LOOK alike? With more and more computer users complaining of wrist and arm injuries, keyboard designers are taking a fresh look at the one component that has hardly changed since the earliest days of computing -- or, for that matter, the earliest days of typewriting 125 years ago. The result is a new crop of alternative keyboards that take the standard flat, rectangular input device and bend, split, fold and twist it almost beyond recognition...
...already decided to run, whatever happened. I pushed the soldier at the back door slightly; three steps was all I needed to jump into the gorge. I landed in a tree, lost my breath completely. My left arm was hurt, and I was bruised all over. There were dead bodies all around me. As I jumped from the tree, a guard fired three bullets at me, and I fell to the ground. "He could have killed you," I heard one guard say to the other, who answered, "I killed him instead." They heaved the next two bodies down by their...
...Organization, which as a group endorses the talks and guides the actions of the Palestinian negotiators. More surprising still was the presence of two Muslim fundamentalist organizations, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. Up to now, these groups and the secular P.L.O. factions have held one another at a stiff arm's length...
Lazor's absence from the spotlight is understandable: He has neither the pin-point arm of Fiedler nor the improvisational athleticism of Giardi. He is a three-step dropback passer, pure and simple...
...audience, extolling the praise of one man's foot, a woman's fingers. Then, towards the end of the show, he summoned the body again. But this time, these were the fingers of a friend, trampled and broken by policemen at a gay rights rally, or the smashed arm of someone victimized in a "queer-bashing" incident...