Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have come to the Kansi family home to express anger over the matter. "Kansi is a local hero," says Syed Talat Hussain, a newspaper columnist. "People praise him for the audacity of his crime. He took on the most dreaded intelligence agency in the world, and that gave him instant popularity." By contrast, in Washington there is only exultation. Kansi, who made incriminating statements on the plane ride to the U.S., is being held without bail in Fairfax County, Va., near CIA headquarters. Last Wednesday, when the FBI's Pickard and Carter went to meet with CIA employees...
...movie. But more than ever this summer, with the moguls at the sausage factories sending out a new slice of action salami each week--The Lost World: Jurassic Park, followed by Con Air, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Batman & Robin, Face/Off and Men in Black--the big films look like instant remakes, retreads or reductios ad absurdum of last Friday's film, which wasn't all that hot either. Some of the movies have incidental felicities, and, to abort all suspense right now, Face/Off is damn fine. But in sum, these films offer evidence that the action-adventure has reached...
...power to the states, it's likely to have little impact on the Brady law itself. Some 27 states have Brady laws of their own, and the court let stand the federal law's five-day waiting period. Further, all local police departments should be able to voluntarily perform instant checks using a nationwide computerized system set to go online in 1998. But a deeply divided court disagreed over whether the law placed a too-great burden on local governments. Although lower courts have ruled Brady unconstitutional because it compels localities to adopt national standards, the court's minority believed...
...cable guys promised years ago and so far have been unable to deliver: a new set of digital services and a bigger pipeline to pump it through. For viewers that means more channels, better picture and sound, onscreen interactive TV guides and high-speed cable modems that can process instant access to the Internet via cable wires...
...find it quite extraordinary that students who have willingly accepted scholarships and loans from Harvard for four years, all funded by the generosity of people who have given to Harvard in the past, can, just at the instant when they are about to collect their Harvard diplomas and no longer need any institutional support, suddenly come to the revelation that people should not be giving money to Harvard," he said in an email message last week...