Word: short-circuited
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Nokia's Business Boom For Nokia, the world's largest mobile-phone maker, this might shape up to be an explosive Christmas season. Consumer groups in Germany and Belgium warned that the batteries in some of Nokia's most popular phones can short-circuit, overheat and even blow up. The announcement, made after extensive testing by Belgium 's Test-Aankoop association, set off a storm; consumers flooded the group's switchboard reporting their own mobile problems. The firm insists its batteries are safe and says many that the Belgians tested were counterfeit. Consumer groups say it's impossible to tell...
...story of Cayce Pollard, a "coolhunter" who gets paid to spot hot new trends for marketers. In her private life, Cayce is obsessed with a series of short films that have appeared anonymously on the Internet. These are enigmatic, surreal scraps of footage that exude an overwhelming melancholy--kind of like the video in The Ring, but sad, not scary. Trouble arises when the two sides of Cayce's life short-circuit: a billionaire marketer gets wind of the films and hires her to find their creator, so he can use them as a marketing tool...
...inches wider in response to customer requests. Car companies are starting to think ahead about this trend, perhaps because dealing with design problems after a product has been brought to market can be costly. Volvo recalled 65,000 station wagons for repairs when it learned that heavy passengers might short-circuit a heating mechanism in their seats, starting a fire...
...must not let Iraq escape from its agreement to allow “immediate, unimpeded, unconditional and unrestricted access” to all sites. This is the only way that arms inspections will work. But by the same token, the U.S. should not be the one to short-circuit the process by prematurely starting a war. Since other nations like France and Russia have a higher standard for “material breach”—the phrase in the resolution that defines when the U.N. will authorize war against Iraq—President Bush must wait until...
...other public venues that might attract terrorists—like the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games just around the corner—a carefully secured perimeter with metal detectors and bomb-sniffing wands would short-circuit most terrorist plots without trampling on the civil liberties of everyone else in attendance. As has always been the case, the best way to prevent terrorism is a capable intelligence force that can sniff out trouble at an early stage...