Word: hooked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Depending on the number of network featuresdesired, hook-up costs can range between $30 and$250, says Richard S. Steen, acting director ofFAS computer services...
...extremes persist at Harvard. Students "either move in together or 'hook up' for a weekend," says Fishman. "You don't see many people going out for a semester...
Mindich agrees, saying, "At other schools, people just kind of hook up, then go their separate ways and don't attach as much self-esteem to it. At this place, there aren't as many random hookups where no one expects anything from the other person...
...check through Nexis, the computerized news-media database, confirms that virtually every time someone is described as having "good" or "noble" or "best of" intentions, that person is about to be accused of doing something wrong. It may just be improperly removing a hook from a fish ("Good intentions notwithstanding, the result of such handling can be a severely injured fish . . ."). But most often since the Los Angeles riot, the subject has been the cities and the underclass...
...previous attempts to reel in Intelsat with a spring-loaded capture bar had failed. Each time Commander Thuot tried to hook his target, the satellite just bounced away. After a day's reflection, the shuttle crew thought of a way to steady the satellite and allow attachment of the bar. The bold proposal involved an unprecedented trio of astronauts working together in the unforgiving vacuum of space. If Thuot, Hieb and Akers had not coordinated their actions exactly, they could have set the satellite wobbling so hard it might have crashed into the orbiter. Had either end of the capture...