Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...survivors of victims of gun violence are charging gun companies with distributing weapons in a way calculated to evade gun-control laws. Two California cases are going after the gun industry for making cop-killer bullets and guns that fail to indicate they're loaded when they have a round in the chamber but an empty clip. The families of two people killed in the Jonesboro, Ark., school massacre are preparing a lawsuit against a gunmaker for not including a trigger lock. And the mayors of Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities may sue to recover the cost gun crimes...
However, this round slap dealt by my mama's words was echoed by the ringing blow of my own fault in this. For who was I expecting my mama to be into my 30s and 40s? All that dirty talk with naughty girlfriends about keeping Mama in the dark--it all made her out to be as cardboard as a fairy tale ogre...
China has the only currency in East Asia that has not fallen in value in the past year. And no one doubts that if the renminbi did slip, that would launch the rest of the region into a new round of devastating devaluations. And Hong Kong, which has pegged its currency to the U.S. dollar for 15 years, would have little choice but to abandon that link, with possibly disastrous results for its stock and property markets. We got a taste of what that might mean for the U.S. and Europe at the beginning of last week, when global stock...
...rewarding China for not devaluing is a bit like pleading with someone on a raft floating on gasoline not to light a match. A new round of devaluations would hurt Beijing just as much as its neighbors, since it would receive less foreign currency for its exports and might lose markets to countries whose currencies drop even faster than the renminbi. And it is not clear that the country would benefit from a devaluation. China's real problem is its domestic economy...
...world--"a plague to end all plagues," whispers kook-savant Dr. Alvin Kurtzweil (Martin Landau), who spends most of his time hiding in a fetid back alley hoping Mulder will show up. The aliens, you see, were earth's original inhabitants, and they are being tracked by that all-round evilest of government conspiracies, FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency). We feel ourselves sliding deeper into Art Bell territory--into the all-night radioland of sci-fi-cobabble. Believe who will. Follow...