Word: arming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempts to expand beyond telephones and phone service, including the failed $6 billion acquisition of computer maker NCR Corp., the pricey buyout of McCaw Cellular ($13 billion) and some high-profile product failures. NCR, which lost billions, was spun off in last year's "trivestiture." Another castaway, the manufacturing arm now called Lucent Technologies, has been on a tear since leaving Allen's hold...
...city of Cambridge's protectionist arm, the CHC shields historic properties from "inappropriate" development and uses its demolition permits and landmarking powers as bargaining chips during negotiations...
Sojourner next turned toward Barnacle Bill, a 10-in.-high rock lying within arm's length of the lander, and closed in to sniff out its mineral content. Displaying a picture of the rover at the rock, the ever buoyant project scientist Matthew Golombek joked, "Here we have proof that Sojourner sort of nestled up and kissed Barnacle Bill." The high-tech buss, profferred by the rover's X-ray spectrometer, produced an unexpected finding: the rock was apparently loaded with silicon or silicon dioxide, commonly known as quartz...
Irabu's appetite is in the best Ruthian tradition. He differs from Yankees past and present, however, in his physiological beliefs. Irabu, who has his own trainer, tapes tiny magnets to various pressure points on his throwing arm and body; they supposedly improve his circulation in the same way that acupuncture does...
...landmark report in last week's issue of the journal Cell suggests that whatever else Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did, they probably did not make love. In a tour de force experiment that involved extracting a microscopic strand of ancient DNA from the arm bone of a Neanderthal skeleton, a team led by Dr. Svante Paabo of the University of Munich showed that the two species have almost nothing in common, genetically speaking...