Word: line
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHRB is installing an ISDN line to receive the digital transmission directly from the Met, for which the opera house will foot the bill. The station must learn the intricacies of the new satellite system before the first broadcast in two months...
Nearly a year and a half later, the University has done something somewhat out of line with typical Harvard protocol--they admitted they made a mistake in their handling of casual workers...
...Chechnya to beef up border security while bombing suspected terrorist bases; then it crossed those borders saying it wanted a 10-mile security zone inside Chechnya. But Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday that his forces now occupy the northern third of the breakaway republic along the east-west line of the River Terek - a fact borne out by reports of fierce fighting from villages deep inside Chechnya. And that suggests that Moscow is trying to partition the territory, taking control of its northern plains and forcing separatist forces back into the mountainous south...
...TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott Macleod, "the attack occurred before the election of President Khatami, who has clearly demonstrated a commitment to end state terrorism and normalize Iran?s relations with the rest of the world. Given Washington?s desire to strengthen his reformist government against its hard-line opponents, the U.S. would be unlikely to take military action against Iran unless there were fresh acts of terrorism." Better that the unfettered and somewhat crude Saudi legal system handle the matter than risk upsetting a relatively docile Iran...
...company, was halted last week by a federal court after the Federal Trade Commission uncovered the brazen scheme. It worked like this: first, according to the FTC, the perpetrators replicated hundreds of legitimate websites, ranging from the Japanese Friendship Garden to the Harvard Law Review. By changing a single line of hidden software code, the culprits then ensured that any visitor calling up these pages would automatically be shunted to their porn site. Once there, the visitors often could not leave: "mousetrapped," with their computers' "back" and "close" commands disabled. Users were thus caught in what the FTC called...