Word: shock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...check up on the lifesaving device simply by waving a mouselike wand over their chest. The wand is plugged into a standard phone jack to send data to a physician over the Internet. An implanted defibrillator--a miniature version of the electric paddles that appear regularly on ER--can shock a racing heart back to a healthy rhythm. But every few months, doctors must check to see if it is operating correctly. This used to mean a visit to a heart-rhythm expert. Now, with Medtronic's dial-up technology, a virtual checkup takes 15 minutes or less. The company...
...crimes suspects still at large. The arrest triggered violent protests by hard-line nationalists who tried to prevent the police from taking him into custody. When police broke into his apartment, they were attacked by a mob of several hundred protesters, who were than dispersed by tear gas and shock grenades. "Sljivancanin himself offered no resistance," said Serbian Police Minister Dusan Mihajlovic. - By Dejan Anastasijevic/Belgrade Judging the Future U.K. As part of a Cabinet reshuffle, Prime Minister Tony Blair announced radical proposals that would increase the judiciary's independence from politicians. The measures include establishing an independent body...
TIME: You describe the revelation about Monica Lewinsky as a great betrayal and shock. But earlier in the book you deal with Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones. Were the President's revelations in 1998 the only time this was real...
...partition, most of Karachi's 440,000 population of Hindus had left and were replaced by 1.2 million Mohajirs, or Indian migrants. They had followed the dream of Pakistan's founding father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to create a nation for Muslims. But the Mohajirs were in for a rude shock. Many of the local Punjabis, Sindhis and Pathans regarded them as unwanted trespassers. They still do, except nowadays the Mohajirs have earned wary respect by carrying out vicious ethnic warfare in Karachi throughout the early 1990s. The Pathans and the Sindhis retaliated but the Mohajirs matched them murder for murder...
...down from the presidency of a billion-dollar empire she started from scratch, having been arraigned at Manhattan's federal courthouse on charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice. She may have been spared the perp walk, but the sight of Martha in such imperfect circumstances was a shock - the only visible touch of the domestic goddess of old being the spotless white umbrella held above her head...