Word: nets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wings defense gave up another goal in the second period. Mathieu Dandenault made a poor cross-ice pass that Vaclav Prospal intercepted and fed to Alfredsson, whose shot hit the post, then banged off Osgood and into the net...
...ashamed. I have an editor who is also befuddled on this point.) Think of a browser as the 3-D glasses your computer needs to "see" things on the Web. When you launch the program and type in an address, you can visit Web pages on the Net. And the most popular places people visit are search engines; they archive the hundreds of millions of pages that make up the World Wide Web. Yahoo, Excite, InfoSeek, Lycos and Hotbot are examples of search engines. The confusion probably stems from the fact that Netscape's and Microsoft's browsers (the Coke...
...expressed disappointment with gaps in the current health care and welfare systems, voicing his support for a "safety net of universal health care" and his dissatisfaction at what he characterized as a welfare system which has been turned into "a system of denying people assistance...
...midterm elections resulted in (a) a net gain of five Democratic House seats (b) no change in the distribution of Senate seats (c) California's first Democratic Governor in 16 years (d) all of the above
Finally, I'd love to have Diamond Multimedia's Rio, a portable music player ($199) that handles MP3s, a digital format that squeezes CDs down to one-tenth their normal size in megabytes. That makes them small enough to send on the Net. But thanks to a Recording Industry Association of America lawsuit that tried to ban the players--MP3 is the format of choice for audio pirates as well as many legitimate artists--everyone wants one. Diamond says it's sold out through Christmas. But, hey, there's always next year...