Word: arms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is a loss of confidence in us, and loss of political credit, and there is an economic loss. Industry has complained massively to Bonn about the economic price we are paying." Industrialists were not alone in complaining. Declared historian Golo Mann, 83: "If I were 50, I would arm myself. Trust in the state's protection clearly no longer suffices...
From then until halftime, the Crusaders kept Harvard at arm's length...
...POOL SITS SO STILL AND CLEAR THAT it remains utterly invisible unless glimpsed from an angle. Suspended overhead, cream-colored puffs of rock billow within arm's reach, seeming to defy gravity. Welcome to Lake of the Clouds, an enchanted spot of earth that has never seen the sun or felt the morning dew. Carved out of solid rock nearly 1 million years ago, this bewitching chamber lies 300 m (1,000 ft.) below the floor of the New Mexican desert at the lowest point in Carlsbad Cavern...
...operations performed each year. The trick in these procedures is to cut a snug hole into which the artificial hip snaps. The standard method is to jam a tool into the thighbone with a hand-held mallet. Robodoc, using the high-speed drill at the end of its mechanical arm, can ream a cavity that is 20 times as precise...
...laws more easily than the U.S. Nevertheless, the change has come fitfully. Britain was among the first to ban advertising on television, in 1965, and to require health warnings on packs, in 1971. Yet Britons, who loathe anything that smacks of a nanny state, have never progressed beyond polite arm twisting. Neither have the Germans, who provide nonsmoking train cars and smoke-free areas in restaurants but rely more on consensus than legal sanctions...