Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is free time in the desert -- sometimes much too much of it. Desert Shield Radio, a network of four FM stations, plays news and music round the clock, a welcome replacement for Baghdad Betty, who used to taunt soldiers that their wives back home were being unfaithful. (One cuckolder was said to be Bart Simpson.) She has not been heard from since the bombing began. By and large, music tastes are fairly sedate. Since the fighting started, says program director Sergeant Major Bob Nelson, "it's like someone put a pillow on it; we got a lot of requests...
...front door to welcome customers. The headquarters' down-home feel is real enough, but don't look for rolltop desks and clipboards. Walton -- Mr. Sam to his 350,000 employees -- invested in a state-of-the-art corporate satellite system that has enabled the company to perfect round-the-clock inventory control so that the products customers want are nearly always in stock. In Bentonville a computer center the size of a football field controls the widespread operations, tracking inventory, credit and sales via a Hughes satellite...
...injury, showed off a shooting arm that did not appear to be the least bit sore. James hit two three-pointers from the top of the key, the second of which brought the Crimson to within five, 40-35. Tarik Campbell then hit a layup in traffic as the clock wound down, reducing Yale's lead to three, 40-37, at intermission...
Laurie Geltman with Big Clock at Johnny...
After Gorbachev's accession to power, doctrinaire communism went into a six- year tailspin. But the turmoil of recent months has given the cause fresh life. Many of the party's new vanguard deny they want to turn back the clock, and yet the Kremlin has begun targeting for investigation prominent private businessman Artyom Tarasov, a self-made Moscow tycoon...