Word: patches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...January evening with a magnum of champagne. After giving me the obligatory hazing about whether I'm old enough to drink, he pours me a glass. He's already banished his two sons to the Home Theater. They have cranked up the set-top box they got for Christmas. Patch this baby into your HDTV, and you can cruise the Metaverse, wander the Web and choose from among several user-friendly operating systems, each one rife with automatic help systems, customer-service hot lines and intelligent agents. The theater's subwoofer causes our silverware to buzz around like sheet-metal...
...life term under the requirements of a law that it criticized as too unbending. The ruling intensified efforts to obtain Clegg's release. M.P.s, ex-servicemen and newspaper editors have rallied to his cause: more than a million people have signed petitions, while the government is considering how to patch existing legislation to deal with killings by the armed services...
...wasn't up to its ``musical demands,'' she countered by slapping him with a $6 million lawsuit. But now composer and actress are practically humming in harmony, having settled their differences for an undisclosed sum--reported to be $1.5 million. Dunaway said she was pleased they were able to ``patch up a very painful public rift,'' and Lloyd Webber lauded her as ``an extraordinary talent.'' A happy ending for both, even if they are riding off into different sunsets...
...then has his software scan a database of the corresponding congressional districts, seeking residents whose profiles suggest sympathy with his cause. When influence is in order -- after, say, a sudden and threatening development at a committee hearing -- his people call these sympathizers, describe the looming peril and offer to "patch" them directly through to a congressional office to voice their protest. "But only in their own words," stresses Bonner, mindful that congressional staffs are getting better at spotting pseudo-grass-roots ("Astroturf") lobbying. Bonner charges $350 to $500 per call generated...
...often undetected, aneurysms can burst without warning and cause death. The current surgery to deal with aortic aneurysm is very complicated: doctors open the chest and replace the fragile portion of the artery with a graft from another one in the body. The new experimental device, basically a cylindrical patch that reinforces the weakened area, can be positioned in the aorta through a thin tube inserted into the groin area and guided up to the chest. If proven as effective as the surgery, the device, currently being tested on 150 patients in a four-year program, could be a major...