Word: caved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Playing in a MUD is like wandering through a literary maze. Scenes are sketched out in a phrase or two -- a woody glade, a drafty cave -- and you move from one to the other by typing commands: go west, climb up, enter castle. In your travels, you run into various objects (a giggling robot, a sleeping sloth) as well as other characters. These can be other players, logging on from a remote computer, or cleverly designed computer programs masquerading as humans. You can communicate with anyone you meet by either speaking (typing a message that appears on the other player...
...door open and pushed him into the passenger's seat. A second man jumped into the back and put a noose around his throat. Blindfolded, Weinstein was driven to a secluded slope underneath the Henry Hudson Parkway, one of the city's main thoroughfares, and forced into the muddy cave 8 ft. underground where he would spend the next 293 hours. A Marine veteran who still plays singles tennis three times a week, Weinstein was not afraid of the physical challenge. "In my heart, I know I could never have survived without the training and combat experience I received...
...addition, the high cost of training will prevent many companies from hiring temporary workers; they would not be able to afford the cost. Businesses would find themselves in a lose-lose situation: cave in to whatever the union demands or stop production...
...National Commission on AIDS completed four years of work with a bitter report charging that prejudice and political inertia have prevented the nation from making an adequate response to the epidemic. "I think a lot of people in America don't believe the roof is about to cave in on them," said one member...
Clinton's cave-in may cost him other allies as well, since those who supported him on the BTU tax were feeling duped. Moderate House Democrats who voted for the tax in late May only to watch the President abandon it without a fight last week, were beginning to liken themselves to Charlie Brown and Clinton to Lucy with the football. "I remember the President telling us specifically that if we went out on a limb over the BTU tax," said Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York, "he would be there with us. But now we don't even know...