Word: arming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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George W. Bush knows the question is coming. He is sitting in the back of a silver Ford Windstar minivan, his compact frame unfurled across the bench seat, his left arm slung across the backrest. He appears completely relaxed, but when the question arrives--the one about whether he has the intellectual wherewithal to be President and whether it bothers him that this issue keeps being raised in the campaign--his body tenses. He turns his face forward, his eyes narrow, and he gazes out the windshield at the long road ahead. "You know," Bush says, his voice tinny...
...trial included substantial evidence that Microsoft used strong-arm tactics to discourage its competitors from developing software that would rival Microsoft's own products, attempted to collude with Netscape in order to divide the market for Web browsers, linked products to force consumers to purchase both its operating system and its Web browser and gave preferential treatment to companies that pre-installed Microsoft's Internet Explorer on their computers...
...Perry's next drive, the Bears set up in a five-receiver set, hoping to take advantage of Perry's arm and quick decision-making...
Whether growing nerves will reconnect properly--ensuring that a signal sent to a leg doesn't wind up at an arm--has always been a cause for concern. But there may be little reason to worry. Researchers now believe that advancing nerve endings carry chemical markers that guide them straight to receptors at their destination. "It's as if the body wants to be whole," says Reeve...
...people here on Halloween. The town somehow has managed to turn a legacy that was once a curse--for many years after the trials, superstitious buyers shunned land in Danvers, the nearby town where the witch-hunt actually took place--into an annual economic shot in the arm...