Word: tides
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...that prices on DVD recorders are finally falling, the tide is starting to turn. Research firm International Data Corp. expects annual DVD-recorder sales in the U.S. to reach 10 million by 2006. The latest offerings still aren't cheap; the least expensive brand-name model costs $500. And because Hollywood copy-protects its movies, you can't use these machines to duplicate the discs you rent from Blockbuster. (Computers with DVD burners are a different story, at least for now, thanks to a DVD-ripping program that has so far survived legal challenge...
...insurers blame rate hikes and policy cancellations on what they describe as a rising tide of lawsuits and $1 million--plus jury awards. Their solution (which many doctors, including Sosenko, support): caps of $250,000 on noneconomic damages awarded for pain and suffering. President Bush and other Republicans, whose campaigns are supported by doctors and insurance firms, endorse such legislation, and the House of Representatives has passed a bill along those lines. But plaintiffs' lawyers, who contribute heavily to the campaigns of Democrats, are lobbying their friends in the Senate, and national "tort reform" may remain more of a rallying...
...rich and influential live in the Defence and Clifton suburbs, in the latter along a wide, crescent shore, in faux Grecian- or Californian-style mansions. Every few years their walls grow taller?concrete evidence of the rising tide of instability that engulfs Karachi. The latest fad among the very wealthy is to have a lion cub or a Siberian crane (an endangered species), which clacks loudly when a stranger approaches, roaming in the garden. In a country where more than a third of the population lives below the poverty line, many of the wealthy believe in enhancing their status...
...homemade ornaments, gushing over the pastry chef as he prepared a State Dinner, going on a heritage tour with Ralph Lauren, publishing a book on entertaining at the White House. But none of that rehabilitated her public image. It took her husband's humiliating, reckless affair to turn the tide. Even then, Hillary at first instinctively resisted any sympathy for standing by her man. Once she finally accepted it, she won the widespread popularity that had always eluded her. Wooing county chairmen from Utica and Poughkeepsie, and mastering the arcana of dairy price supports was not what won Hillary...
...Because water is 800 times more dense than air, tide power is a more productive energy source than wind power, now commonly used throughout the developed world. Where a wind turbine may be up to 80 m in diameter, a tidal stream turbine need be only 10 m across to produce 50% more energy. Though the blades turn slowly, just 10 revolutions per minute, the rotation generates a great deal of torque - a force that causes an object to rotate. That is then turned into energy via a hydraulic accumulator, which condenses the power into a motor that drives...