Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seem undisciplined and chronologically impaired. In fact his memoir is cunningly designed for maximum suspense and beaucoup laughs. Going on 67, Barney has total recall of old grudges, past loves and 40-year-old hockey scores. But ask him what he uses to strain spaghetti and he goes blank...
...major lines of defense, known as mail controls and parental controls. Adults can keep kids from receiving E-mail altogether or let them get it only from other AOL members or from a specified list of approved senders. E-mail from problematic domains like __.com (fill in the blank) can also be blocked. And parents can prevent kids from receiving files attached to E-mails, since some spammers offer a taste of their products by enclosing pornographic pictures. (The controls can also be set to keep kids away from certain Websites; to keep them out of AOL's private chat...
...scene and use tape recorders--for like every hour that we improvise we get like 30 seconds of dialogue that we'll keep. [pauses] You guys are like the real writers. You take a blank page and impose a structure on something. I know I can't do that because I was an English major--I've written papers for years and I'm just not good at it. It drives me nuts--I pull my hair out in front of the computer watching the cursor blink...
...situation is analogous to copying CDs onto blank tapes. If a student makes a copy for herself, she probably would not be caught, but if she were to copy a song and distribute it to millions of people, the ramifications would be much more serious...
Noise is the least of it. Aircraft exhaust killed a wheat field next to the runway, Pickard says, and several years ago, Pickard's cattle came down with a mysterious affliction--heifers losing weight, their eyes pale and blank. His veterinarian finally traced it to the water supply, Lytle's Creek, which had been contaminated with ethylene glycol from Airborne's de-icing operation. Local environmentalists have met with Airborne's lawyers, and the company is studying the problem. But with winter here, the de-icer is flowing again...