Word: pads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still owns the joint, as if he's still a Southwestern Gatsby peddling hundreds of millions of dollars of soon-to-be-worthless junk bonds to elderly Southern Californians. Can Keating still summon U.S. Senators--the Keating Five--to his defense at the touch of a phone pad? Or procure the services of top law and accounting firms? Or hire Alan Greenspan, who, before he became Fed chairman, gushed over the "outstanding success" of Lincoln Savings & Loan, Keating's star asset? No. All that happened before Lincoln crashed in a $3.4 billion pile of broken dreams, the most costly savings...
Student delegates came from 27 states, including California, Illinois and Texas. Franken, a former Dunster House resident, told them he expected the conference to be worthwhile. "It's an excellent way to pad an otherwise thin college application...
...Kennedy Space Center. By identifying the serial numbers on pieces of attached thermal tile, NASA was able to confirm the two pieces of metal, one 6 by 15 feet, the other 1 by 5 feet, were from the doomed shuttle. Challenger flew for 73 seconds after lifting off the pad at the Cape when a leak in one of the shuttle's solid fuel rockets caused the explosion. A sobering reminder, at a time when the U.S. space program is looking ahead to the construction of the international space station, of just how dangerous space exploration...
SideWinder Game Pad...
...fine art of gaming requires precision tools. While a joystick is perfect for the sharp pitches of a flight simulator, a more refined controller is needed for sports and fighting games. Rather than opting for a space-age design, Microsoft based its new Game Pad on that outback classic, the boomerang. The oddly shaped console makes it easy to dodge virtual "point guards" in N.B.A. Full Court Press, or to execute a combination punch in Mortal Kombat, thanks to a responsive controller and nine programmable buttons. When you're fighting for your life, fear not: the wisdom of ages...