Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doing so. If we were permanently to endorse the line Joseph Stalin carved across Europe in 1945, we would subject the alliance to the risk of irrelevance and perhaps dissolution. Rejected in their aspiration to join NATO, the Central and East European countries would scramble to jury-rig their own independent and therefore competitive security arrangements...
...posted to the company's site on the World Wide Web. There have been no customer reports of security breaches so far. But now that the flaw has been discovered, the company's developers and program managers could be in a race with Microsoft-hating webmasters, who could theoretically rig their sites to damage any computers who use the Internet Explorer browser to access them...
...plea bargain turned ADM (1995 sales: $12.7 billion) into an informer for the government. In exchange for immunity, company officials agreed to become witnesses against other firms under investigation for conspiring with ADM to rig prices in the $1.2 billion citric-acid market...
...friends spurned by their husbands in middle age who plan a madcap payback. But for all the one-liners and pratfalls, the movie is more than satiric fluff. Like Thelma & Louise, which five years ago set audiences to cheering when Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon blasted a trucker's rig to smithereens--or last year's Waiting to Exhale, which had women yelling "Go, girl!" at the screen--The First Wives Club is dipping into a bottomless well of shared female rage. It is rage at the imbalance of power that allows men to use up the best years...
...responsible for the continued killing of thousands of civilians, including children. Is this the democrat the West wants? A shift of power to any other candidate would at least add credibility to the democratic mechanism. The worst thing the West can do is give Yeltsin the green light to rig the elections or ignore them. OLLI LAGERSPETZ Swansea, Wales...