Word: hook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...successful.' " He talks more openly about the pain and the disability that linger from his war injury, how he cannot look at himself in the mirror in the morning until after he has put on his T shirt, how he must reach for a hook to button his shirt...
Computer-magazine racks are full of advice on how to hook up to the Internet. After a long, pointless wrangle, the government last year finally granted licenses to companies that provide commercial, as opposed to academic, access to the Net. While language remains a barrier--English dominates the Internet--Japanese students around the world are using the Net to chat in a mixture of Japanese and English that their parents would never understand. Shortly after the Kobe quake, Tomoji Ohta, a college student whose parents' home had collapsed, approached TIME reporters on the rubble-strewn streets with an urgent request...
When Francis discovers Thomas' illegal operation, he offers to let him off the hook in return for a small favor: going to Exotica to talk to his favorite dancer, Christina (Mia Kirshner). She is the light to which all characters are attracted, including the club's owner Zoe (a very pregnant Arsinee Khanjian) and her ex-lover Eric (Elias Koteas), the club's deejay...
...computers via TV cables. Motorola plans to test the system this year in a venture with TCI in suburban Chicago. (Comcast is experimenting with a similar system in Philadelphia, using equipment made by Zenith.) Apple, in conjunction with Texas Instruments, will market a tool it calls FireWire, designed to hook all such devices together so they can be operated from a single ``touchpad,'' or remote-control device...
...slam himself down on a park bench, which must feel roughly like sitting on a block of dry ice. But he doesn't care. He's beyond physical pain. I sort of expected to feel triumphant at this point, but I don't. So I let him off the hook. ``I just came from your accounting firm,'' I say. ``I told them I had discovered an error in my calculations -- that my set-top box had a faulty chip. I supplied them with 27 new numbers, which I worked out by hand, with pencil and paper, in a conference room...