Word: ring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...swung by Jupiter in November 1973, Pioneer took the first close-up photographs of the giant planet and its moons, detected and mapped its immense magnetic field and intense radiation belts, analyzed its turbulent atmosphere and discovered that it was encircled by a faint Saturn-like ring...
...they act as network servers. IBM even changed its trademark color to yellow or red stripes. "We don't even call them mainframes anymore," says Linda Sanford, an IBM general manager. IBM may be in need of another nickname, but somehow "Little Yeller" doesn't quite have the same ring...
...that putting more money in workers' pockets will help free many of them from reliance on federal subsidies, which in turn will free up more of everyone's tax dollars. At the same time, Cicione says he would balance the budget by limiting "corporate welfare," which has a good ring in this working-class district...
After years of considering a Senate run--interrupted this winter by his wife's cancer surgery--five-term House member Johnson finally threw his hat in the Senate ring. Reason? Because, he says, the once tolerable incumbent Senior Senator had taken to endorsing legislation that hurt the people of his state, specifically, the new telecommunications act. Giving up a safe seat in the House, the outspoken Representative should give Larry Pressler a run for his money...
Waters is a veteran legislator and an unapologetic liberal. Enraged by recent allegations that the CIA might have financed a crack cocaine ring in her district--where poverty and black-on-black gang violence are common--she immediately called for official investigations. Though the congressional majority may regard her fervor with disdain, Waters has overwhelming support at home, where she has never won less than 75% of the vote...