Word: connections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the HomeLink system, you use a modem to connect to BankBoston's encrypted dial-up system via the phone lines they provide with their software. (You can't access HomeLink over the Internet yet.) Enter your personal identification number (PIN) code, and you're ready...
...Some take the view that the Democratic party should stick to economic issues, but many of us argued that the Democrats need to connect economics issues with values and that it would be a mistake to leave all discussion of values and the culture to conservatives," Sandel said...
...Living up to the promise will be much easier than getting Windows 98 to ship on time. The infrastructure will cost much less than was previously thought, plus the plan to produce modems that connect at a screamingly high 1.5 million bits per second is actually modest by DSL standards. The makers of the technology believe it can squeeze as much as 8 million bits out of a copper phone wire ? perhaps more. "It's the great bandwith horizon," says Ramo. "You never get any closer to the edge...
...because the appeals process in death-penalty cases often lasts years, juveniles who face capital punishment are almost always adults by the time the sentence is carried out. The aging perhaps makes it easier to flip the switch or pull the lever. But it also makes it harder to connect the criminal to the crime. "By the time the state gets around to executing these people, the kid who committed the crime no longer exists," says lawyer David Bruck, who is handling the appeal of Joseph Hudgins, 22, who was convicted of murder at age 17 in South Carolina...
...other characters seem mute and unable to connect with each other; Antony has to filter his decisions through Cleopatra's ultimate judgment and there are moments when no one listens at all when he speaks. Even Antony's friend Eros, to avoid a verbal disagreement with Antony when he orders her to kill him, kills herself instead. Feinstein's Antony is memorable and portrayed excellently, but the helplessness of his character makes one view his emotional tirades like those of a child. Everyone, save Cleopatra and Caesar, seems to float alone through the story, which is why the Victorian setting...