Word: stream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who want their information delivered in a trickle, rather than in a stream, consider Motorola's Sports Trax, a pager that feels like a cross between a radio and the sports page of a daily newspaper. Pick your favorite baseball team, and the clever pager "trax" it like a die-hard fan, transmitting pitch-by-pitch updates of every game and displaying the action on a calculator-like screen in real time all season long -- if there ever is another season...
...Fugui and Cheungsheng search for their adopted Nationalist Army, they hear something in the distance. It builds into a roar, and their fear is tangible, Suddenly, tens of thousands of communist soldiers storm down the hill after them. Fugui and Chungsheng run, but it is futile. Like a stream of lava overtaking them, Mao's forces surround Fugui and Cheungsheng. This scene immediately distinguishes "To Live" from any other film in recent memory. It is the work of a craftsman with a lot of money to spend. It is the stuff that makes movies larger than life...
...harshest attack yet on the Chechen capital, Grozny, showering the city with artillery and rockets. Scattered groups of haggard Chechen fighters resisted the onslaught, but many retreated house by house as Russian soldiers claimed block after block of territory. Members of President Dzhokhar Dudayev's government reportedly joined the stream of refugees, though successive Russian air raids failed to dislodge rebels from the surrounding Caucasian mountains. Even a swift victory may be too little, too late to rally international opinion to Russian President Boris Yeltsin's defense: TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says Clinton Administration officials have actually been...
...Senate committees approved bills that would require the federal government to fund new mandates imposed on the states. The Governmental Affairs and Budget committees passed the Unfunded Mandate Reform Act. The bill, said Senator William Roth of Delaware, chairman of the Governmental Affairs panel, would end the "steady stream of dictates from Washington on how to spend locally raised tax dollars." The full Senate is expected to take up the legislation on Wednesday, while the House will turn to the issue next week. The legislation is a key concern for the nation's governors, who have long complained of unreasonable...
...Pope is, in Catholic belief, a direct successor of St. Peter's, the rock on whom Jesus Christ built his church. As such, John Paul sees it as his duty to trouble the living stream of modernity. He stands solidly against much that the secular world deems progressive: the notion, for example, that humans | share with God the right to determine who will and will not be born. He also lectures against much that the secular world deems inevitable: the abysmal inequalities between the wealthy and the wretched of the earth, the sufferings of those condemned to lives of squalor...