Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other parents sat in folding chairs under an awning outside the church, watching the rain and listening to the service via a closed circuit audio system...
...Optoelectronic integrated circuit" may sound like high-tech mumbo jumbo, but Texas Instruments is betting that it will soon be as familiar a term as computer chip. Last week the Dallas-based electronics firm announced the development of the first OEIC, a chip that transmits information not through the cumbersome contemporary method of electrons passing along silicon pathways, but rather through the simplest medium of all: light...
...cost arena for building up credit with Washington. That support was crystallized in Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh's announcement that Moscow would co-sponsor the peace conference, which will require it to restore full diplomatic ties with Israel first. He is planning a Baker-like circuit of the Middle East in early May and is expected to visit Israel...
Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Stephen Breyer, the third panelist, agreed with Kennedy but said that by itself, the Bill of Rights is not very effective. Breyer described to the audience what he had told several Russian visitors who had asked him, "Why does the government do what you say? Can the government put pressure on you...What about your wife...
...bearing children from any job where lead readings reached specified levels. Company officials acted on the grounds that medical evidence indicated that contamination of a mother could cause serious damage to the nervous system of any fetus she carried. In supporting the company two years ago, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that those who opposed Johnson had failed to show how anything less than a sweeping measure would eliminate the hazard...