Word: arms
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...friend who also helped polish Forbes' announcement speech. But his 18-hour days on the campaign trail are anything but a holiday. At a Burger King in Iowa City recently (Forbes is keen on the French fries), he was approached by a woman holding a baby in one arm and a Whopper in the other, who asked Forbes whether running for President was his hobby, like ballooning was his father's. Forbes grimaced, then recovered and replied graciously, "I assure you, there are better hobbies than this one." --With reporting by Tom Curry/New York
...Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia initialed a peace agreement to end the nearly four-year war in Bosnia that has killed untold thousands; a formal signing ceremony is scheduled to take place in Paris in December. Bosnian Serb leaders, who at first vehemently opposed the accord, relented after arm twisting by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The agreement, while preserving Bosnia as a single state, separates it into two entities: a Serb republic, controlling 49% of the land, and a federation of Muslims and Croats, controlling 51%. The federation will also administer most of the long-besieged capital, Sarajevo...
...peace agreement in Paris on the 14th of December. Then, within a matter of days will follow a Security Council resolution -- since this whole operation is taking place under the rubric of the U.N -- asking NATO to do the job. The North Atlantic Council, NATO's political arm, will then ask its Supreme Allied Commander for Europe, General George Joulwan, to begin the operation. Within days you will begin to see American troops moving from Germany by rail and roads through Hungary into Bosnia." Van Voorst reports that the Hungarian parliament yesterday approved the use of its bases for transportation...
Blood is drawn intravenously through a tube stretching across the room through an opening in the wall, which can be attached to a subject's arm for up to a week. A technician can therefore draw blood regularly without disturbing the subject, even when he or she is asleep...
...already slashing prices to bring people into their stores. "Consumers tell us that 50% off is what it will take to motivate them," says C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, which studies consumer behavior. Predicts Carl Steidtmann, chief economist for Management Horizons, the retail-consulting arm of Price Waterhouse: "This will be the most promotional Christmas in a decade. Most stores are in far worse financial shape than their customers...