Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York Times has called "one of the country's leading sociologists" has indeed become the Willie Mays--or perhaps more accurately the Jackie Robinson--of sociology by swirling academic dust clouds, never seeming afraid to stick his scholarly neck...
...cable operators' network upgrades are aimed at much richer and more important prizes, chief among them their own survival. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed media giants of all persuasions to compete in one another's markets. With everybody from the Baby Bells to Bill Gates breathing down their neck, cable operators have little choice but to lay fiber over their aging coax networks as the old analog media converge into one big digital stream. High-speed Net access, for the moment, is just an intriguing appetizer to a main course comprising telephones, wireless data services and even interactive television...
...damaged by my thoughtless actions," he later told police in a written statement, "the only thing that could satisfy her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place." The couple's plan was simple, he said: he would break Jones' neck, and weight the corpse with barbells before sinking it in Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prairie...
...trunk, tilting the rear seat forward just enough to see Graham behind the wheel. After the car slowed to a halt on a lonely road near the lake, he motioned to Zamora, who clambered into the passenger compartment screaming at Jones. Graham lunged to try to break Jones' neck with a twisting motion. "I realized too late that all those quick, painless snaps seen in the movies," he wrote in a self-typed confession obtained by the Dallas Morning News, "were just your usual Hollywood stunts...
Brine "key chains," worn around the neck with keys and student ID dangling down your back (preferably underneath a sweaty t-shirt) are also "in"; senior Katina Lee, co-captain of the softball team, models the trend nicely...