Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...electronics and computer technology," says Hannifin. These experts and metallurgists, as they salvage pieces of the plane, will build a gigantic metal jigsaw puzzle in a effort to piece together the 747 airliner. They will study such factors as the direction in which particular pieces of the wreckage were bent, and the relative heat damage to different parts of the airliner, which provide vital clues to the precise source and direction of the explosion: a bomb inside the cargo department? an exploding engine? a missile from outside? "These people are so expert in their field that they can reassemble...
...that Dole's advanced age and inability to communicate account for Clinton's lead in election polls. The same U.S. News and World Report poll substantiates this analysis. Fifty-four percent of Americans would vote for a candidate with serious concerns about his character but with a similar political bent, while only 31 percent would vote for the individual whose character they respect but whose opinions they do not favor...
...nothing as Yeltsin lectured him about Russia's great-power prerogatives. "The idea was to have Yeltsin stand up to the West, just like the Communists insisted they would do if Zyuganov won," says a Clinton Administration official. "By having Yeltsin posture during that summit without Clinton's getting bent out of shape, Yeltsin portrayed himself as a leader to be reckoned with. That helped Yeltsin in Russia, and we were for Yeltsin...
True enough, bathing suits can do more for you today than they ever could. Only a couple of years ago, they were cut so high in the thighs that even the glammest gals approached the water awkwardly, bent over and tugging at their crotches. This year, mercifully, the suits are longer around the thighs and cunningly fortified with underwire bras and invisible tummy-flattening devices. The more fiercely constructed ones can probably swim without an occupant...
Certainly, second wives, bent on protecting their own brood, have more moral authority than the men who have already left one brood behind. But even they may not be any match for market forces. New York City is considering a proposal from investment bankers at Morgan Stanley to get immediate payments to first families by selling high-interest bonds based on the assets of deadbeat parents. The Mommy-munis would be backed by the full force of the child-support-collection apparatus...