Word: rammed
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...also seen as more emotionally open, ingenuously self-deprecating, so his larger distortions--about skewing his tax cuts, raising less money than Gore for his campaign, giving more seniors drug coverage--do not annoy people as much. Embellishment takes a certain amount of calculation, and most of Bush's RAM is used up trying to remember who's covered and who isn't under his own Medicare prescription plan. Bush, who boasts of his preference for one-page memos over books, obviously wanted the bell to ring badly on Tuesday night. He affably admitted he needs help, naming everyone...
...computers are fast--450 megahertz--and have 128 megabytes of RAM, meaning lots of applications can be run simultaneously...
...Panasonic unveils the first-ever home DVD video recorder. That's right, it doesn't just read DVDs, it makes them too. But don't junk your old VCR quite yet. At $3,999.95, the DMR-E10, above, isn't cheap, and it uses a controversial format called DVD-RAM, which means that the discs it records aren't compatible with most other players...
Three years ago in North Carolina, DuPont helped ram through the legislature a bill requiring doctor's approval for the substitution of generics like Barr's warfarin. "We are only concerned about patient safety," says DuPont spokesman Thomas Barry. Some physicians support DuPont's position because they say warfarin is a tricky drug and doses must be carefully calibrated. The implication is that the brand names do a better job of that. But the FDA says the generic version is safe and has admonished DuPont more than once for stoking false fears in its promotion of Coumadin...
...front door, they first had to get past a few self-styled sentinels who, somewhat pathetically, tried to wrap up the feds in a TV news camera's cable. Then the agents banged twice on the door; when no one answered, they pushed in the door with a battering ram and moved quickly through the six-room house to find Elian. The rest is etched into the American imagination...