Word: standoff
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Princeton and Brown, which still offer Early Decision, also prohibit their early candidates from applying elsewhere, which has led to a standoff with the national association...
...fast-acting sleeping agent being pumped into the theater was the key ingredient in a daring rescue raid. As early as Day One of the hostage standoff, diggers had been tunneling underneath the theater in preparation for an assault. Now in the early hours of Saturday, gunshots from inside had forced into action the waiting Spetsnaz commando troops in the elite Alfa and Vympel antiterror units of the Federal Security Service. The Chechen hostage takers, it seemed, were about to fulfill their death vow. They had sworn that if Russian President Vladimir Putin had not declared...
...desire and real pressure on the part of mobile operators to limit its development," says Andy Brown, a U.K.-based research manager for the technology research firm IDC. Saving customers money may not be the first priority for operators struggling with billions of dollars of debt. But the standoff is frustrating companies working on ways to allow cost-efficient roaming across different phone platforms such as Norwood Systems, and a competitor, Red-M, in Wooburn Green, England. Red-M has developed software that enables roaming between phone networks, Bluetooth and 802.11, a standard which allows broadband wireless Internet access. Both...
Abell: I think the demonstrations were driven by the openness of debate. The administration was very open at that time. There is a misconception that the takeover was a standoff against the University, but in reality, it was a multifaceted event with a real passion behind it. Everyone, not only the liberals, had a venue for debate and the right to speak out about their views...
...celebrity junkie. My favorite magazine is Vanity Fair, I occasionally make forays into Entertainment Weekly and, in true moments of weakness, People. It’s lately gotten so bad that I challenged my thesis advisor to a movie trivia standoff last week. He was good, I was better. Of course Jon Cryer played Duckie in Pretty in Pink...