Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time working with G.O.P. legislators than with his own Democratic allies as he set new records for fiscal stringency: no tax hikes in the 1990s and the biggest budget surplus in state history. A shining New Democrat, Bayh is expected to challenge Senator Dan Coats in 1998 for the seat Bayh's father held for three terms...
...appearances, Christopher Reeve is not moving. His hands lie in their black leather rests like fish on platters. Black straps hold them in place. A seat belt holds his midsection in place but is needed only when a spasm threatens to jolt his body from the chair. Otherwise he and the chair are one--the 6-ft. 4-in. frame of the man conforming to the contours of the black metal contraption that, with its array of tubes, dials, wheels and wires, looks to be part hospital, part tractor...
...undress the wound on his backside and so they can do "the bowel program." He jokes that the bowel program, like a TV show, is on every night. "The reason we have to do it in bed is that the people who made my commode chair put the seat on sideways, and when I tried using it that way, it made my decubitus wound much worse. So one of my humiliations is that my bed is also a bathroom. You're given a suppository and what is called a dig-stim, for digital stimulation, which means that a nurse literally...
...into it, for some reason I panicked. I was sitting back in this chair, and I felt, 'I can't be here. I can't do this. Get me out. I can't. I don't trust it.' My arms were strapped down, the way they are now. A seat belt was put on me. My legs were strapped onto foot pedals. It was like being put in an electric chair...
...cause of the crash, she reports, nor are they prepared to turn the case over to the FBI. The discovery has been more of a puzzle than a revelation. "What they have found is a tiny trace of PETN, a component of some kinds of plastic explosives, on a seat cushion," says Rivera. "Divers have recovered 60 percent of the wreckage from that section of the plane, and found no other traces of explosives. You would expect more traces to be there, so why haven't they found there more positive readings? Instead of a conclusion, these findings just lead...