Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Murphy claimed that several of the bombs used by the Unabomber were in the shape of a video cassette and had copper tubing and batteries...
...members of the University Community are urged to exercise special caution in handling incoming mail, especially padded manila envelopes, packages that appear to contain videotapes, plastic boxes, copper tubing or batteries, or parcels that bear unfamiliar return addresses," the message said...
...birth produces a joyful child who is a delight from his first moments. The monster's birth, however, is an awkward torment. The doctor/father/mother/creator wrestles with a newborn twice his size in a bath of amniotic fluids. The child attempts to kill his mother immediately on emerging from his copper womb, struggling to use his malformed limbs and decaying mind in an act of revenge...
...many forms, they all share certain similarities. No matter how complex a derivative may be, it is at bottom a security that takes -- or derives -- its value from underlying things that can range from the familiar (stocks or bonds or interest rates) to the exotic (gold in Ghana or copper in Mexico). Moreover, those underlying things can be sliced and diced in all kinds of ways. Among the most popular derivatives in mutual-fund portfolios are the so-called interest-only strips, which pay interest that comes from pools of government-backed mortgages. These strips became hot when interest rates...
...Although they lead in the race to lay fiber-optic cable, much of it was originally installed to carry a high volume of phone traffic into cities and therefore does not connect to individual homes; instead, the fiber-optic trunk lines branch into twisted pairs of copper wires, which carry far less information directly to the customer. That means the companies must either replace this so-called last mile with fiber-optic cable or find a way to compress the data through the thin copper openings...