Word: fastener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...siege of Ruby Ridge." One person was killed and 65 wounded as several cars left the tracks and fell 30 feet down a desert ravine 60 miles southwest of Phoenix. Engineers report seeing something on the tracks just before the accident. Local authorities say 29 rail spikes that fasten the track to the cross-ties had been removed from a 19-foot section of the track. Two men were briefly detained and questioned, but were cleared of any involvement in the incident...
Apple's regular board of directors meeting is scheduled for next week, and the board will certainly be appraising Spindler's two-year-old reign. The ceo was brought in as the nuts-and-bolts guy to fasten the company back to earth after the board forced out the blue-sky guy, John Sculley. Now is it time to send...
...Fasten your seat belts, people: the Cleveland Indians will be contenders. Not just pretenders, either. In an AL Central division featuring the lowly likes of the Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Twins, and Kansas City Royals, they are for real...
BUSINESS: Fasten Your Seat Belts...
...that it reveals the gross and unreflective arbitrariness of public policies and proposals that--in the name of family values--fix their scornful attention on gays and lesbians. What could be easier--in the face of rampant heterosexual promiscuity, premarital sex, teenage pregnancy, and skyrocketing divorce crates--than to fasten our attention on a long-despised class of people who bear no children...