Word: rugs
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...work ever since the first prehistoric flint pebble was knapped into a butchering tool. Until about 500 years ago, however, innovation in a world moving at the speed of agriculture came infrequently, giving time for accommodation and a complacent sense of establishment. Then Columbus rediscovered America, and suddenly the rug was pulled out from under every form of Western authority. America had figured neither in the Bible nor in Aristotle, so what was it doing there? Then, within a few decades, returning with explorers from east and west came a flood of new plant and animal species, all of them...
...There are other, less happy, outcomes on the horizon as well. Most immediately, the possibility that the high court refuses to pass a sweeping judgment on Gore's ongoing contest in Florida. This would effectively pull the rug out from underneath the Republican argument, and could set them up for disappointment down the road...
...issue of character, although not always explicit, has hung gloomily over this election since the last days of the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. At that time, some held that private sins, once admitted, could be forgiven and swept under the rug as "youthful indiscretions" irrelevant to one's presidential functions--that in the case of Clinton, the extramarital could be considered merely extracurricular. Others, many of whom now find themselves uncomfortably defending Texas Gov. George W. Bush, demanded that the president excel all his countrymen in virtue, a requirement that Jimmy Carter might pass but that John...
...similar ideas at an upstart outfit called Fairchild Semiconductor. But there was a key difference. Noyce, who had a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T.--Kilby flunked the admissions test--used a new chemical etching technique. It could not only print transistors on silicon wafers directly, like patterns in a rug, but also lay down the critical connecting tracks between them, simplifying the chips' manufacture and increasing their speed. Fairchild and TI fought a bitter patent battle that Fairchild ultimately won. But the gentlemanly Kilby and equally gentlemanly Noyce, who died in 1990 at age 62, were always content to call...
...avoid the issue altogether without appearing untrustworthy - after all, Lazio not only met her debate-night challenge by collecting cease-and-desist pledges from various soft-money donors, but he never demanded reciprocation. And it wasn't just Lazio's impeccable timing that pulled the rug out from under Clinton: The agreement itself puts her at a distinct economic disadvantage - something Lazio may well have considered as he made the issue...