Word: hookings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more people you hook up to the network, the more valuable the network becomes--not only for the provider of the network, but the individual private user too," said Richard Civille, the executive director of the Center for Civic Networking, who cited the economic benefits of universal access...
...Clinton Administration has shown a willingness to let Beijing off the hook in such scrapes. In a similar episode only a few weeks ago, the U.S. chose not to impose economic sanctions, accepting Chinese leaders' assurances that they had not known about the sale to Pakistan of magnets that could be used in building nuclear weapons. Was last week's affair another case of an unsupervised Chinese sales staff...
Waist-deep in the fast-running Gunnison River, below the towering rock cliffs of Colorado's Black Canyon, angler John Duncan drifted a tiny brown imitation caddis fly on the filmy surface of the crystal-green water. Suddenly a form rose from below and took the hook. As Duncan played in his leaping, twisting catch, he could tell by its green back, silvery sides and blazing red stripe that he had hooked a rainbow trout. Then Duncan saw something else: a jet-black discoloration on the fish's tail and rear section. The trout was clearly diseased. "I was shocked...
...spores are released when infected fish die. These spores are not in themselves harmful to trout. It is only after they have been ingested by inch-long Tubifex worms in the mud that the parasites become dangerous. In the worm's gut, the protozoan takes a new form: grappling-hook-shaped spore cases that when released from the worm, can invade the gills and skin of tiny rainbow fry. The infection eats away at the cartilage of young trout, leaving them deformed, discolored and often spinning frantically in small circles until they die. Hence the name whirling disease...
...Republicans would point to Clinton's two different measurements as typical Clinton waffling, but the White House apparently treats them as the result of an honest difference of medical opinion. Either way, of course, we're talking a good six inches over Dukakis' height. I'm off the hook...