Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...murder of a German tourist in April sent out global shock waves -- and sent Florida officials scrambling to shore up their image as the Sunshine | State. Driving in from the airport in an Alamo rental car, Barbara Meller- Jensen had taken the wrong turn and ended up in one of Miami's poorer neighborhoods. When she felt her car hit from behind, she got out to see what had happened. Then, as her six-year-old son watched, thieves beat her, robbed her, climbed back into their car, gunned their engine and drove over her head. To counter the impression...
...security business. As many as 90% of the luxury cars sold in California are equipped with antitheft devices either in the factory or at the dealership. There are glass sensors, tiny microphones that set off an alarm if they pick up the tinkling of broken glass. Motion sensors and shock sensors go off if the car is jolted or bounced. Clifford Electronics Inc. offers a remote-triggering device that shuts off the car's electronics, so that when a carjacker gets a block or so away from the carjacking scene, the owner can hit a transmitter and stop...
...This was a shock to me," Schultz said after news of the missing money broke. "I was unaware of such discrepancies...
...biggest shock came when Cruz discovered she had not won anything at all. She and thousands of others were victims of a computer error that generated 800,000 winning numbers instead of 18. The company explained that it simply did not have the $32 billion it would take to pay all claimants and that the real winners would be identified by security codes placed on caps...
...that they were a peaceful race. Experts now generally agree that warfare played a key role in Maya civilization. The rulers found reasons to use torture and human sacrifice throughout their culture, from religious celebrations to sporting events to building dedications. "This has come as something of a shock to many Mayanists," says Carlos Navarrete, a leading Mexican anthropologist...