Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That they were aiming for 250 dead shows that their motives went far beyond targeting the people who teased them. They planned it very carefully: when they would strike, where they would put the bombs, whether the fire sprinklers would snuff out their fuses. They could hardly wait. Harris picks up the shotgun and makes shooting noises. "Isn't it fun to get the respect that we're going to deserve?" he asks...
...Crimson held a commanding 2-1 lead heading into the final minutes of regular time, and it appeared that Destiny herself was on the field wearing a Harvard uniform. But a late Princeton goal took the game into overtime--and gave Tigers the opening they needed to snuff out Harvard's dreams of glory. And most of its title dreams...
Svicarovich, however, is quick to snuff out any linebacker controversy created by an over-eager Crimson scribe...
Khatami had urged the students to curb their demonstrations as they became increasingly violent, but is now forced to sit out the backlash as police and Islamic fundamentalist militias move to snuff out the largest protest movement seen in Iran since the revolution. Although he risks alienating some of his most committed supporters by backing away from the protesters who carried his portrait through the streets, Khatami knows from experience that conservative crackdowns tend to drive the broader Iranian public toward the reformist agenda. And with parliamentary elections looming next May, a conservative backlash may work in his favor...
...avoided digital cameras, which bypass film and shoot directly to disc, because the sub-$500 models are sub-snuff in the quality department. That left low-cost scanners (which convert paper photos to digital bits) and Picture CD, a new photo-to-digits service from Kodak and Intel that's being introduced this month...