Word: inch
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After winning the battle to see notes of a crucial White House meeting on Whitewater, Republicans on the Senate Whitewater Committee spent Friday poring over the 12 pages of barely legible handwritten notes taken by White House lawyer William Kennedy and an inch-thick package of documents the White House says is meant to prove that nothing in Kennedy's comments was confidential at the time. According to Kennedy's papers, there was discussion at a White House meeting in 1993 that included Clinton, several aides and Clinton's personal attorneys, about the coincidence that Vincent Foster killed himself...
What can a $500 dumb computer do? Not much. A decent 17-inch color monitor costs about $700. Most people want to see their information in color on a nice, big screen; how will IBM and Oracle overcome this difficulty...
...moodiness for a robust interpretation. Fischinger spent hours making the film "An Optical Poem" by filming suspended paper cut-outs. Using a chicken feather on a stick, and the young John Cage as an assistant, he moved exposure by exposure through a film whose vigor belies none of this inch-work. His use of symphony music and the theatrical quality of his compositions lend his short films the feel of Disney's famous concert feature, "Fantasia," which he worked...
...Anderson said the snake was recaptured around 2 p.m. when officials from Facilities Maintenance cut a six-inch by six-inch hole in the student's sheet-rock wall, exposing a hollow area in which the snake was hiding. The student will have to pay to fix the wall, he said...
...neighbors across Old Main Street, Carlton and Maggie, regularly throw corn on a big rock in their side yard, and last week the turkey flock they consider their own made its annual reappearance. There are 16 birds this year, hens and gobblers, milling about in an inch of new snow. A parked car doesn't bother them, but if you try to approach on foot, they sound their alarm call, "putt," or "putt-putt," and wander off into the woods in a not very alarmed fashion. Real alarm would send them running at about 25 m.p.h. or flying...