Word: elements
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...place by 1996 a network of 77 satellites that can relay phone calls to any spot on the planet. That means when the boss has a question, no Himalayan mountaintop or African jungle encampment will be beyond the reach of the ringing phone. Named Iridium, for the chemical element whose nucleus is orbited by 77 electrons, the Motorola plan would constitute the first global cellular system. Calls would cost $1 to $3 a minute, compared with about 50 cents a minute for cellular calls within urban systems linked by radio towers. Potential users include traveling executives and mining engineers...
Bonnie Bedelia, who plays McLane's wife, Holly, does a fine job as one of the many unsuspecting hostages, and adds an element of comic relief. Her ability is wasted by simply using her as a trophy for Willis to claim after he slays his machine-gun toting dragons...
...Yeltsin has thought beyond that. As a central element of his campaign, he vowed to push for a law establishing a true presidency in Russia and to run for the office in a popular election with multiple candidates. That was surely one factor in his victory: Deputies were impressed by his willingness to submit to an early ballot-box referendum on his leadership. If he runs, his fellow Russian politicians say, there is no doubt that he will be elected...
Spurred by studies which showed an alarming lack of diversity among the houses, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 brought back the previous year's proposal introducing a more random element into house selection...
...have in mind an alternative approach. One key element would be to institutionalize European development and establish totally new structures on a Pan-European basis, naturally with the U.S. and Canada actively involved. Another would be to synchronize the political and disarmament processes with the pace of German unification, or at least link them as closely as possible. Incidentally, in our view, this synchronization is one of the main functions of the "two plus four" mechanism ((the current negotiations among the wartime Allies -- the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union -- plus the two Germanys...