Word: dragging
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...disrupt already weakened trade links between Ukraine and the rest of the Commonwealth. Critics argue that by insulating Ukraine from Russia, Kravchuk is trying to avoid the kind of radical market reforms demanded by international lending organizations. Kiev counters by arguing that economic subordination to Russia is a drag on Ukraine's development as a sovereign state...
Thomas still thinks cross-dressing is wonderful, but he doesn't do it very often anymore. He's never liked being stereotyped as a drag queen and, well, he just doesn't feel like wearing women's clothes these days."Ultimately it's just not me," Thomas says...
...military's last hurrah. The last few days' violence was its dying gasp." But he adds that he "can't say when, how or at what cost" a civilian-led democracy will prevail. In fact, the death watch on military rule, if it really is that, may well drag on through weeks, months or even years of tension, turmoil, renewed demonstrations and possibly even more bloodshed...
Basically, summertime is guy time. Males drag their dates to the shoot-'em- ups and blow-'em-ups; and last year they made City Slickers, the Billy Crystal comedy about male bonding on a cattle drive, a gol-durned superhit. Will they flock to the baseball comedy A League of Their Own (July 1), even though it's about an all-girls' team? Will they sit still for Ron Howard's transatlantic love story Far and Away (May 22), with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman? "I worry whether it will have any male appeal," says film analyst Grove...
Keels, fins and rudders require more complicated tests. With the help of companies such as Boeing and Digital, designers perform wind-tunnel experiments using special computer codes that help show lift and drag forces on the keel. Shapes of keels now vary widely, from the basic lead-filled bulb at the end of a fin to the hydrodynamic "winged" keel, a Y-shaped structure that has less underwater drag and more lift. The latest design: a tandem keel that combines the rudder and keel fin and eliminates the need for a separate rudder. Developed in shipyards with great secrecy...