Word: ring
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...camouflaged, with your bow at full draw, to have a chance of killing one with an arrow. This is not easy. Other bow hunters say 10 yards is the right distance, which makes turkey hunting about as doubtful a proposition as observing elves and fairies dancing in a forest ring...
Registers ring like a trolley...
...best in the world. The head of Shin Bet, known only by his Hebrew initial "Kaf," acknowledged a complete security breakdown as Rabin descended from the podium at the end of the peace rally. Though close to 20 protective agents were present, Rabin was not cocooned within a ring of bodyguards facing in and out, nor was his back adequately shielded. No one had prevented Amir from hanging around the parking area where Rabin's car waited. Although Shin Bet knew Rabin had received death threats, they did not noticeably tighten their procedures at the giant public rally...
DIED. RAYMOND W. HOECKER, 82, onetime U.S. agriculture official; in Springfield, Missouri. In 1968 Hoecker came up with the idea of encoding product information in a scannable symbol. Today the familiar stripes of the Universal Price Code have helped abolish the tedium of waiting for slow cashiers to ring up purchases, replacing it with the more modern tedium of waiting for balky scanners to read...
Overly ambitious Perhaps Yet many of Postman's arguments ring disturbingly true. He criticizes those who view technology as a panacea, noting that though the Internet may be an excellent disseminator of information, teacher student and student - student interaction is irreplaceable. He also deplores the mutation of cultural pluralism into "multiculturalism." While the former advocates the acceptance and inclusion of all cultures, he believes the latter seems preoccupied with a dangerously divisive, ethnocentric fragmentation...