Word: bumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often at a loss to interpret a law that demands "reasonable accommodation" of the disabled yet allows that compliance need not incur "undue hardship." At a time when voters are feverishly opposed to more regulations and higher taxes, the country's 85,000 state and local government agencies bump up against public resistance when they want to spend money to benefit a relative few. "That's taking time and resources that could have been used in a lot of other ways," says Wally Douthwaite, city manager of Des Plaines, Illinois, which spent $2 million to improve sidewalks and curbs...
...apart and orbiting through space at 17,500 m.p.h., Gibson and shuttle pilot Charles Precourt began the delicate and risky maneuvers aimed at linking the two great ships. One careless burst of a thruster jet, and Mir's feathery solar panels could be destroyed; too forceful a bump from Atlantis, and either or both craft could be severely damaged. And if Gibson and Precourt couldn't align their 100-ton spacecraft to within 3 in. and 2 [degrees] of its assigned position before the final docking, the whole mission would have to be aborted...
...danger was that the two behemoths would bump with too much force...
Harvard students will bump, grind and swing at spring formals sponsored by the 12 undergraduate houses over the next few weeks...
...pressure pumps. Again, the camera watches only their legs as Evie runs around, trying to help Randy and yet stay out of the way ("Oh my God I'm such a spaz!" she cries). The reduced view captures the sexual potential underlying the situation as, inevitably, their legs bump or touch in passing. The owners of said legs either do not notice (Evie) or do not acknowledge (Randy) this sexual tension...