Word: clock
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Those missed shots--especially the one Dave Murray missed with a chance to tie the game with seven seconds on the clock--may have given the Crimson the game. That's why they call the foul line the charity stripe...
...Geneva, Shultz and Shevardnadze agreed on verification procedures that once seemed unattainable. Among other things, U.S. inspectors will mount an on-the-scene, round-the-clock vigil at a Soviet missile-assembly plant near the Ural Mountains to see what goes in and comes out; Soviet watchdogs will do the same at a U.S. plant in Magna, Utah. With that issue settled, Reagan and Gorbachev on Tuesday afternoon can stage the grand signing ceremony for the INF (intermediate nuclear forces) treaty that is the ostensible reason for the summit...
Neither team will be allowed inside the other's missile factories, but each can station round-the-clock monitors to inspect cargo at the exits and perimeter. In addition, each country will be allowed to make 20 surprise visits to suspected weapons facilities during the first three years of the treaty, 15 during the next five years and ten annually in the remaining five years. U.S. officials will be able to fly into Moscow or Irkutsk, and Soviets into Washington or San Francisco, without advance notice of the site to be inspected...
...their New York City offices are typical of the sleek, hard-driving operations that now dominate the profession. Overlooking its ten- story atrium are hundreds of lawyers' work spaces. Stop by at 3 a.m., and a dozen or more unlucky souls will be there, grinding out documents around the clock. Even at a respected old firm, the doors often seem one of the few traditions still in place...
...forgot that the doll needed to be programmed with ten "secret words" in the owner's voice before it could answer questions. "Julie, are you hungry?" he asked. "Can we talk about your friends?" it replied. The audience was not impressed. Mattel's Baby Heather comes with an internal clock that tells it when to be "hungry" or "sleepy," but if the clock is not set correctly, Heather may wake up its owner at 4 a.m. wanting...