Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once it was easy to pass over a story like David Thibodeau's. He says he saw the shiny thing embedded in a wall of the chapel in the Branch Davidian compound, where he took refuge with fellow believers. It was the middle of a lull between government tear-gas assaults, and in the calm, Thibodeau studied the thing. "It was the size of a Coke can," he says. "Silver, stainless steel in color. There were three fins on the back. It was some kind of projectile." Before he could look more closely, however, the screech of tanks started...
...slightly uncomfortable with, an olive-drab jacket weighing on her shoulders like chain mail and--something rare enough among prime-time adults, let alone teens--a genuine crisis of faith. Having witnessed, alone, the death of her grandmother--who told Lindsay, as she slipped away, that she saw "nothing" beyond--Lindsay is questioning the justness of the world and her own place in it. Cardellini captures her simmering outrage with just the right mixture of sarcasm, melancholy and self-righteousness. And she's only one among the well-imagined, glam-free nerds and burnouts in this high-spirited, heartfelt story...
...husband and I saw Blair Witch last weekend and hated it. But we have nothing but admiration for the directors--$100 million in ticket sales so far from a $35,000 movie. Go, go, go!!!! MARISA GRAZIANO ROBERT GORMAN Blue Bell...
...company focused on cutting the fat from the communications and ordering processes used with its overseas strategic partners. The system, says Marciel, was built on a complicated and arcane paper trail. Within a year of integrating B2B technology into that process, Adaptec reduced its operations by $2 million, saw a 40% reduction in its product-development time and trimmed its inventory levels...
...Some saw Hillary's hand in President Clinton's decision three weeks ago to override the unanimous objections of federal law enforcement agencies in commuting the longstanding conspiracy sentences of the 16 members of the group, the Armed Forces of National Liberation, known by its Spanish acronym, FALN. But it's not clear what if any political advantage there is to be gained by pushing for clemency. The 1.3 million Puerto Ricans in New York State remain deeply divided on the issue of independence for the island, not to mention the means to achieve it. At the same time...