Word: stream
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...Walking out of Suffolk Downs, past rows of men poring over their Daily Racing Forms and Boston Heralds like Talmudic scholars looking for an esoteric pattern to the endless stream of numbers, past piles of losing tickets littering the puke-green floors, I feel somehow enlivened. I know that, in the best of all worlds, I'll make the 100-yard walk to the T poorer twice as often as richer. But I also know that tomorrow, I could make the super and catch my own Ticket Out of Here...
...Fisherman: If you like fly fishing, you'll love the Gore administration. Al Gore--More exciting than a rushing stream...
...within two weeks of getting her license. Joanna and her crowd are guilty of nothing more than youth and inexperience--but that can be a dangerous combination behind the wheel. Eide, 45, worked at a clerical job in a hospital emergency room in the 1970s and witnessed a steady stream of car-crash victims. Citing dramatic reductions in teen auto accidents in Florida, one of the first of 37 states to adopt some form of graduated licensing, she boasts, "This bill comes with a guarantee to save lives...
...meteorological conditions unfavorable to sales occur, the company that purchased the contract will be paid without having to prove any losses. And in some cases, companies actually pay the issuer of the derivative if weather ends up being favorable to sales. Either way, the company gets a guaranteed revenue stream that provides a buffer against climatic vagaries...
...attack is practically public property. You can download it in the form of programs, or scripts, like Trin00, Tribal Flood Network or the nightmarish-sounding Stacheldraht (German for barbed wire). Each program can accept a kind of plug-in to make it even more adaptable, with names like Stream, Spank or Raped. "These tools have been out there for years," says Emmanuel Goldstein, editor of the hacker journal 2600. "Hackers have known about these for years. They haven't done anything about it. To me, that shows great respect and restraint...