Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...swirled around the home of Jo and Bruce Powers in Naranja, Florida, a Miami suburb, they hid with their two children, Jo's sister Karen Brocato and several neighbors in a couple of small bathrooms. For two hours Bruce, his foot braced on the sink, pressed his 200-lb. frame against the door to keep the hurricane from ripping it open. They heard glass shatter and stick in the walls. Water poured in around the medicine chest, and the tub rattled itself away from the wall. Roof tiles flew under the door. "I've never been so scared...
...disc that looks just like one that might play the latest Guns N' Roses release but in fact stores all the shots of the kids and the Grand Canyon in digital form. These newfangled photo albums hold up to 100 images, stored for a fee of about $1 a frame. They can be viewed, without risk of fading or fraying, on an ordinary television set using a special CD player...
...frame, as the book suggests, is frequently a matter of the masses following a fad that someone behind the scenes has set in motion. After all, if no one had put the idea in our heads that he was a sex symbol, who would be impressed with an asexual, surgically reconstructed rock star like Michael Jackson...
...strains of the Russian anthem faded, veterans Biondi with a silver medal and Jager with a bronze found themselves looking up at the 6-ft. 6-in., 192-lb. frame of Alexander Popov, a fresh-faced 20-year-old who was virtually unknown in swimming circles until last year. Popov's gold in the 50- m race followed his victory two days earlier in the 100-m freestyle, where Biondi holds the world record. At the postrace press conference, Popov was asked how it was possible to succeed amid the chaos of the former Soviet ( Union. "We were preparing...
Henry believes the Philadelphia program will make a difference because it is willing to take the three to six years needed to "put things right" in a young man's life. Such a philosophy and time frame contrast with government programs offering quick-fix solutions, but Henry believes in taking a pay-now- or-pay-later approach. His goal for the fathers is true self-sufficiency, by training them for jobs in areas such as printing, building maintenance and computer programming. This is no easy trick; the program has a hard time persuading employers to give the young...