Word: gems
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...Securicor hired Kerry to run its subsidiary, Lao Securicor, the company's client list included the Settha Palace Hotel, the Australian embassy and a sapphire-mining company that, despite the appearance of its dirty, three-story office building on Sihom Street in Vientiane, seemed on the verge of success. Gem Mining Lao held sapphire mining concessions, estimated to be worth $100 million, in Bokeo province, a region of dense forest, green rice paddies and rusty tin shacks where farmers were known to find sapphires and rubies in the red earth after heavy rains. In the cozy world of expats...
...young puppeteer, Frank Oz provided the voice for Miss Piggy and Yoda. As a movie director, he built a reputation as one of the best comedy craftsmen in Hollywood, with films like In & Out, Bowfinger and the musical gem Little Shop of Horrors. But Oz, who's actually a very serious fellow, always longed to prove himself at drama, to get his hands on something "dark and gritty...
...model the V.P. received--a Medtronic Gem III DR--is a miracle of medical miniaturization, a fully automated, battery-powered, custom-programmed combination pacemaker and defibrillator that can monitor the complex rhythms of the heart and correct any abnormalities it discovers with carefully measured pulses of electricity...
...Cheney's heart rate slows to fewer than 40 or 50 beats per minute, for example, the Gem III DR's pacemaker function will speed it up with a series of short bursts of about 5 volts each. If his heart starts pumping too fast, the defibrillator portion will release longer bursts in quick succession to slow it down. And if it starts beating dangerously fast--more than 200 beats per minute--Gem III DR will restart it with a jolt measuring a few hundred volts (enough to feel like a swift kick in the chest...
...Cheney's heart rate slows to fewer than 40 or 50 beats per minute, for example, the Gem III DR's pacemaker function will speed it up with a series of short bursts of about 5 volts each. If his heart starts pumping too fast, the defibrillator portion will release longer bursts in quick succession to slow it down. And if it starts beating dangerously fast - more than 200 beats per minute - Gem III DR will restart it with a jolt measuring a few hundred volts (enough to feel like a swift kick in the chest...