Word: launch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blueprint for the future of Kosovo, all they got was a promise in theory from the ethnic Albanians to subscribe to the NATO plan a couple of weeks down the road. What Belgrade got was a delicious reprieve from American dictates and the missiles that NATO had threatened to launch if Serb strongman Slobodan Milosevic failed to accept the deal. The whole business will have to be gone over again when the talks resume on March...
...without blinking. Ellroy investigates the unsolved murder of his mother, trying to make sense of the event that has determined the course of his life. He follows real-life L.A. Sheriff's Department Homicide men through their daily crime-ridden routines. He takes the O.J. Simpson trial as a launch pad for an insightful analysis of L.A. And he spices it all with two alliteratively lunatic novellas set on the tainted side of Hollywood's golden age. All in all, there is nothing particularly new about Crime Wave in Ellroy's career...
Members of the crew team explained that the three Harvard boats were readying for a scrimmage when Assistant Coaches Blocker D. Meitzen and Tim Cullen first spotted the body from their motorized launch. They yelled out a warning to the members of the team...
...trade off full functionality for a specialized, ultralight tool. But be warned that CE will run only its own applications, and they're "lite" versions. Microsoft is so worried that consumers will be confused--and buy a CE machine expecting it to run full Windows programs--that it will launch an "awareness" ad campaign next month. Pocket Word, for instance, is a dumbed-down Word that's little more than a text editor. It doesn't even have a word counter--which is why, when Mr. Productivity wrote this column, he had to count words with his fingers. And knees...
...simply lob a Scud-like missile full of lethal germs into Manhattan from 20 miles offshore, neatly passing underneath the shield. Even the Joint Chiefs of Staff "worry more about a suitcase bomb going off in one of our cities," Cohen admits. "Very few countries are going to launch an ICBM, knowing that they are going to face virtual elimination...