Word: stall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is not a stall," he says. "This is a matter of being dead in the water, [of] not having any agreement about what we want...
...White House Plumbing With water, water everywhere, the White House wants to plug those leaks: Clinton's legal attack team is taking Ken Starr to court. Clinton Cool Under Fire Starr Still Searching for Clinton Paramours Executive Privilege: Just a Stall Tactic...
...starting procedure and modified the airplane's fuel lines and cowling, but that the motor had continued to shut down for unknown reasons. The brakes suffer from "sponginess, excessive travel and total loss of brake pressure," the experts said. A cockpit safety alarm designed to warn of an approaching stall keeps failing because it was built to operate on 24 volts while the T-3's electrical system produces 27. Even the plane's rather simple but critical cockpit gauges suffer from "extremely low" reliability, investigators wrote. "I don't know what testing went into all those different changes," Captain...
Perhaps the most shocking thing about the crime allegedly committed by Melissa Drexler was her seeming lack of concern about it. Minutes after giving birth in a toilet stall and then allegedly choking or suffocating her 6-lb. 6-oz. son, Drexler returned to the floor of her high school formal dance in Aberdeen Township, N.J., where she ate some salad and danced with her boyfriend. Six months later, Drexler, now 19 and known outside her immediate circle by the tabloid sobriquet Prom Mom, is by most accounts maintaining her outward poise. Says a friend, Tim Hoban: "She seems pretty...
...stakes for the U.S. are particularly high in Japan and Korea. Banking collapses in either country would pull back gobs of capital from the U.S. and possibly slay the bull market. At the same time, a sharp drop in demand for U.S. exports could slow or stall the soundest peacetime expansion in recent American history. Perhaps more worrisome is the danger Rubin warned against--that Japan and Korea might slash prices of exports to the U.S. to restart their economic engines, and thereby ignite a trade...