Word: clones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barrett vehemently denies he is a Weld clone; indeed, he concedes only one similarity--both men are residents of Fayerweather Street in Cambridge...
...over again. And I could see a few persisting questions that would keep coming up with each screening. I think one would be, when Brendan Fraser's hard drive crashes: 1. Why didn't he back up on floppy? And 2. Why was he using that cheap IBM clone...
...Well, he was using the cheap IBM clone because he is a scholarship student who doesn't have much money, so that answer is easy. In fact, we chose that computer even though we had a deal with Apple because I said that his character wouldn't be able to afford--that computer should be a fifth-generation hand-me-down that he, like, bought for twenty-five bucks...
Blackmun may have pleasantly surprised those who worried that he would be a Burger clone, but his move to the left made him perhaps the most vilified Justice in history. Although he would wish to be known for more, Blackmun will largely be remembered for writing the 1973 majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, establishing a woman's right to choose an abortion. He probably set a record for judicial hate mail, 60,000 pieces, calling him everything from the Butcher of Dachau to Pontius Pilate. At a recent speech, he read from one: " 'You are the lowest scum...
...CHIPS (common-linked higher-income participation securities), as well as LYONS, TIGRS and CMOs. A decade ago, if you wanted to work on Wall Street, you went to business school; but now you can study genetics and end up at Merrill Lynch, where instead of splitting genes to clone an elk, you can graft a share of Snapple (which doesn't pay a dividend) onto a dividend, thus creating the Snapple ELK -- a dividend-paying fictitious concoction that rises and falls in value along with Snapple itself...