Word: toto
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...with some pretty wild ideas, however. The University of Oklahoma's Howard Bluestein really did develop an instrument akin to the device called Dorothy in Twister. Bluestein, who was one of the models for meteorologist Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) in the movie, named his device the Totable Tornado Observatory, TOTO for short, and tried to intercept an oncoming funnel. TOTO was a bit unwieldy (it tipped the scales at 400 lbs.), so researchers switched to the more sprightly Turtles, which are cheaper to build and more easily deployed...
...Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. When Republicans talk this way, it means they have a problem on their hands. Buchanan has pinpointed and energized a constituency that the G.O.P. can ill afford to lose, the Downwardly Mobile Middle Class. But he's done it with a message that the party of freewheeling capitalism can't embrace. It doesn't matter whether he becomes the nominee, an outcome the party professionals still cross their fingers and say is unthinkable. He's tossed a bomb in their midst. The same righteous belligerence he turns against affirmative action...
...constabulary, soon to be regulating the city. "If the Bosnian Serb leaders can enforce this self declared apartheid everywhere, peace may not come to Bosnia," says Time's Mark Thompson "However, Bosnian Serbs in the Sarajevo suburbs may feel they have more to lose than the Serb population in toto, so there may be more compliance in Sarajevo...
...word screed against technology, the same document the terrorist mailed on June 24 to the New York Times, the Washington Post and Penthouse (which had previously offered to publish it). Since then, both papers have been fretting over the bargain the Unabomber proposed: publish the tract in toto within three months--and promise to make space available afterward when requested--and he will stop sending the lethal package bombs that have killed three and wounded 23 over the past 17 years. Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, meanwhile, took out a whiny full-page ad in the New York Times last week...
...expand terminals and payments to farmers whose commodities sell below set prices. To ensure that Congress doesn't pick and choose -- a process in which the strongest special interests would see their favored scams survive -- Shapiro wants a bipartisan commission whose recommendations Congress would have to accept "in toto or not at all. Spreading the pain, like the military base-closing committee did," he says, "is the best way to guarantee that the job is done right...