Word: scour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robinson) Murray Hamilton as Inspector Haines, and Charlie's Angels go-between Bosley (David Doyle) as the piqued Lt. Dawson. Really slow weekend? Try Tommy Lee Jones and Faye Dunaway in 1978's "The Eyes of Laura Mars," about the terror stalking of a high-fashion photographer, or scour the classics shelves for the 1948 Dragnet precursor "He Walks By Night," with Richard Basehart as the debonair slasher. Beltway addicts, of course, will want to skip right to "Julius Caesar." Just make sure it's the 1953 version, with Brando as the Emperor Newt...
Want to see how much the world knows about you? Try this: log on to the World Wide Web, fire up a search engine (one of those Websites with names like HotBot or AltaVista that scour the Internet for key words), and type in your name. You're probably listed somewhere, especially if you've been mentioned in a newspaper or magazine article during the past few years...
...Morris as he suggested language for a presidential press conference. He calls other senior aides to promote ideas based on national polls he pays for himself. His former chief aide, Tom Freedman, just joined the White House Domestic Policy Council to do for it what he did for Morris: scour the country for promising ideas to turn into federal initiatives. Morris' clout is nothing like what it used to be, but he is said by a knowledgeable source to be talking to the President monthly. Clinton has recently dismissed some Morrisiana as worthless--but he often did that during Dick...
...signs of online religious activity are everywhere. If you instruct AltaVista, a powerful Internet search engine, to scour the Web for references to Microsoft's Bill Gates, the program turns up an impressive 25,000 references. But ask it to look for Web pages that mention God, and you'll get 410,000 hits. Look for Christ on the Web, and you'll find him--some 146,000 times...
Many other teams work for their programs as well. Both the women's and men's water polo team scour Bright Hockey Center after each home game, while the softball team attends to the scoreboards and video at the field hockey games...