Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rheingold, who writes about the you-are-there technology known as virtual reality, predicts that consenting adults in the not too distant future will be able to enjoy sex over the telephone. First they will slip into undergarments lined with sensors and miniature actuators. Then they will dial their partner and, while whispering endearments, fondle each other over long-distance lines. For those who prefer something tamer, Nobel physicist Arno Penzias believes that in the 21st century it will be possible to play Ping-Pong (or any other sport) with phantasms that look and talk like the celebrity of your...
John H. Shenefield, a managing partner at thefirm's Washington, D.C, office said in responsesto the protest, "Everybody has a right to protestin this country according to what they believe nomatter how misinformed or ignorant they...
...Slick Willie" could take lessons in evasion from this master. Lincoln's dodging and weaving offended the abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker, who was a hero to Lincoln's law partner William Herndon. And Karl Marx, who was reading closely in his American sources, concluded that Lincoln was timorous: "All Lincoln's acts have the appearance of mean hedging provisos, which one lawyer puts to his opposing lawyer...
...partner, William Herndon, said Lincoln's genius as a lawyer was to concede all nonessential matters while he focused on the crucial part of any case -- what he called the nub. In pursuit of that, he was brilliantly logical behind his haze of concessions, his diffidence about ancillary matters: "He was not impulsive, fanciful or imaginative; but cold, calm and precise. He threw his whole mental light around the object." In stating the nub, he chose words "that contained the exact coloring, power and shape of his ideas...
Bush, for example, denied to the very last that he would summon his old friend and partner in fish James A. Baker III to run the crumbling White House. When the move was actually made, though it was business as usual. No mention of the earlier denials. White House reporters didn't even bother...