Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back at his desk in Houston after the jump, he was rummaging for the names and addresses of all his new skydiving buddies so he could pay up on a penalty--one case of beer--because he'd dropped the rip cord instead of fixing it back on the patch of Velcro. Unwritten rule of the skyways: Recycle your equipment. His fellow jumpers didn't mind a bit, pronouncing his jump "perfect" for a novice. But Bush cared...
...followers died. An illustration of an extraterrestrial stood nearby. The video is somewhat more gruesome than the portions of the sheriff's video shown on television. At least one cult member had blood flowing from the head, perhaps a reaction to the suicide drugs. Rio noted the triangular patch specially made for the group to wear on their all-black outfits. It reads: "Heaven's Gate Away Team...
...there's no real need to get all worked up over these problems at this point. Microsoft has created a patch that it says fixes all three of the security breaches. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/ie/security/update.htm....
Even when the shipyard periodically had to lay off workers, they didn't expect much in the way of government benefits--and they didn't want to be taxed to pay for them. Many workers owned a fishing boat or a vegetable patch that they could work until the yard started hiring again. When people in the Pascagoula area wanted redress against a big company, they tended to look to the courts, whose juries could be quite populist. Southern Mississippi is home to a small but aggressive plaintiff's bar, featured twice over the past year on the front page...
...Scriptase martinis, Lori and I glanced outside to see the hundreds of beautiful Hereford mommies, glorious and dumb as posts under the great Canadian sky, chewing vitaminized, antibioticized alfalfa while inside each of them our own future little fan clubs incubated. "Look, over there, the one with a white patch on the eye, No. 388--that's yours, honey!" Bliss...