Word: rig
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...small force of Czechs behind them. Why? Because the Czechs are experts in detecting and defending against chemical and biological attacks, skills picked up during the cold war. But the biggest dangers might not come from missiles bearing nerve agent or VX gas. "Saddam may use nonmilitary chemicals and rig up booby traps that detonate when you open a door or step on something," says Lieut. Colonel Ivo Musil, chief of operations for around 390 Kuwait-based Czech soldiers, part of a "consequence-management team" tasked with detecting and cleaning up after a chemical or biological assault. The vapors...
...this as being particularly difficult, or even interesting. “I guess I just do things a little differently,” he says. He thinks a bit. “For example, I had the handicapped suite in Canaday B freshman year and I tried to rig the door by remote control.” Pause. “Also, last year I had a hat that they called the Grandma Hat. It had a big plastic flower on the front. They said it was strange, but what they missed was that it was a conversation piece...
...this tale had a racing pedigree, it would be by The Producers out of Guys and Dolls. Goes like this: three wiseguys--old college frat rats, now computer wonks--hatch a scheme to rig electronic bets on the horses. A scheme so good, they can't lose. They don't lose. They win big. Real big. Lotto...
...year-old company's share price has plunged 80% this year, and investors have turned their wrath on the board and management as investigators have widened their probe into accounting errors and a secret investment scheme that some executives allegedly used to enrich themselves. New CEO Rolf Dörig certainly doesn't have an enviable task. The company will press ahead with a sorely needed rights issue to raise up to $825 million this week, even as investigators and analysts look for more cracks in the firm's foundation. Perhaps his first move should be to take...
That can't be measured exactly. Travel is, in some crucial way, a subjective emotional experience. The delighted Dr. Johnson's carriage jounced along down urban corridors of dust or mud. But the rig was, for its time, a Rolls-Royce. Travel is literally a state of mind. When trains got started in the early 19th century, people thought that moving 20 m.p.h. might cause insanity. On the other hand, it is not speed but an enraging motionlessness--the stalled freeway, or the runway where you sit for an hour or two awaiting takeoff--that causes derangement today...