Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last November Schroeder suffered another stroke that left him bedridden, semiconscious and unable to speak. By Christmas his condition had so deteriorated that his family and doctors decided not to connect him to a respirator should his lungs fail. Schroeder lingered in a twilight state for seven months, until last week. Family members, summoned to his bedside, initially balked at the doctors' request for a CAT scan but finally agreed. The test confirmed that a massive stroke had destroyed most of Schroeder's brain, and last rites were given...
...tale of American power. The business of magic is sleight of hand: now you see it, now you don't. Ronald Reagan is a sort of masterpiece of American magic--apparently one of the simplest, most uncomplicated creatures alive, and yet a character of rich meanings, of complexities that connect him with the myths and powers of his country in an unprecedented...
...next year the computer network that links Miller's bank card to his grocery register will connect four California banks to 300 Lucky Stores. Wanda Jaworski's computer system is one of 300 LANs (local area networks) that already crisscross every large Travelers' office. Capobianco's networks branch from giant mainframe computers that tie hundreds of thousands of personal computer owners in an electronic community that stretches from coast to coast...
...Smith's beliefs to folk magic, rather than to divine revelation as the church teaches. Prosecutors claim that the letter and many other documents that Hofmann peddled to the church were forgeries, and that Christensen learned of the scam. Sheets, they believe, was killed in a diversionary effort to connect Christensen with her husband's controversial business dealings. Hofmann, who was injured a day after the slayings in a car bombing that police say was accidental, maintains that he is innocent of both murders...
...coldest night of the year, with no warning to the men who used those worm places, or to Leverett students. It took more conscious effort and cost to cover those grates than to simply leave them open. It is evidence of a desire for simple solutions; to connect those men to a rash of thefts in Leverett simply perpetuates a myth about the homeless. If there were complaints, there should have been discussion. But none of this happened, and the grates went...