Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...using a radically different "graphics engine," it will deliver mesmerizing 3-D modeling. Doom addict Trent Reznor, of the rock band Nine Inch Nails, has created Quake's heavy-metal sound effects. The enhancements make Quake much more realistic than Doom--and yes, bloodier. (Kids: heads fly off and roll around on the ground! Zombies actually pull chunks of flesh out of their hides and fling them at you, then explode like red water balloons when you shoot them with your nine-inch nail...
Regardless, Harvard is on a huge roll. The team has tallied seven straight victories with four of those wins coming over top 20 opponents...
...salary of a law professor or a federal bureaucrat. I don't know a single person in my family or neighborhood who would even think of giving something near a week's paycheck to a political candidate. And it turns out we aren't all that rare; according to Roll Call, fewer than four tenths of one percent of American citizens have given direct campaign contributions of $200 or more...
...Eclipse, Galant and the new Spyder autos that roll off the line of the Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America Inc. plant in Normal, Illinois, some 140 miles southwest of Chicago, are virtually free of defects. They reflect a good combination of Japanese design, which stresses continuous improvement, and American assembly and engineering skills...
...finally sounded at the Tokyo headquarters of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Chairman Hirokazu Nakamura admitted that "there were such cases" at the Normal plant but insisted that they were dealt with properly. Nakamura also expressed concern that Americans would draw the wrong conclusions about the cars that continue to roll off the assembly line. "Unfortunately," he said, "the news coverage that the company somehow neglected the cases will give customers the impression that such a place cannot produce good products." Mitsubishi Motors last year generated sales of $38.2 billion and earnings of $596.48 million, yet the American division has been...