Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promote the first triathlon in the People's Republic.) Horning has broken his back and both legs in separate skiing accidents, and he was born an epileptic, but he discounts these liabilities. The biggest barriers are self-created and psychological, he tells people whom he is trying to hook on the triathlon. "People are always saying 'I can't.' Well, if you say that, you probably...
...wake of the Milwaukee investigation, hundreds of companies and individual computer owners were scrambling to see whether their information was safe from computer tampering. "Our phone has literally been ringing off the hook," said Robert Campbell, president of Advanced Information Management in Woodbridge, Va., a consulting firm that advises banks and credit-card services on how to protect their computer information. Campbell and others in the computer security field, whose fees range up to $1,000 a day, say that since January there have been at least a dozen major cases of tampering or theft of computer data...
...left widening ripples. He picks up his line and casts again. Three times, four times. On the fifth cast, the green drake just barely nicks the surface when an olive back emerges, and with an almost imperceptible disturbance, the fly vanishes. It is a big fish. Lempke sets the hook...
...clarion cry "I see danger, danger, danger," falls into the first category. Like "Temptation," "The Village" softens up the eternal beat by relying more on programmed keyboard rhythms than on electronic drums to propel the song. But the treatment seems forced and the not-quite-that-catchy hook is shoved down the listener's throat until getting a cold respite of the pulse-like drum beat, and a few clipped notes from a real bass...
...most offensive part of the statement (and of the whole registration issue) is the fact that one is "off-the-hook" if one is female. I will never be penalized monetarily by the financial aid office by the financial aid office for my opposition to registration because I am a female. Is it right that half of the population of the United States must sign documents when they turn 18 years of age, that allows them to be called upon to kill their fellow humans? I do not think so. I do not think that it would be any more...