Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answer, according to a group of Harvard chemists, is a qualified "yes." In a collaborative effort, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry George M. Whitesides '60 and Manoj K. Chaudhury of Dow Corning showed that water, pulled by a chemical gradient, can indeed travel upwards on a surface...
...Laptops are older and heavier cousins of notebook computers. Although they look like notebooks, laptops weigh from eight to 18 pounds. Today they have been virtually replaced by notebooks, but some still sit on store shelves around and sell for irresistible prices. Avoid them. They are too heavy to travel with and too poorly equipped to be useful. And many of them can't run on batteries...
...swamp of sensation, but here goes. Clarence (Christian Slater) works in a Detroit comic-book store. It's his birthday, and as a present his boss has bought him a surprise call girl, Alabama (Patricia Arquette). She may vaguely aspire to be Melanie Griffith, and if Clarence hopes to travel abroad, it is only because he "always wanted to see what TV in other countries looked like"; but this is true romance. The two must marry, run into some mortal trouble (Gary Oldman as a drug dealer, Christopher Walken as a Mafia don) and flee -- with the surprise package...
...flexibility in shifting money from one use to another. Two areas of one military base boasted well-maintained sidewalks, while in another area, personnel walked in mud because the base commander's budget contained money only for repairing sidewalks, not for building any. Government employees who need to travel must get approvals from many superiors and superiors' superiors, and then often have to deal with a single airline under contract to their agency; they cannot snap up a cut-fare offer from a competing line...
...both sides had produced a draft that Pundak describes as "very interesting stuff." Interesting enough to entice two Israeli Foreign Ministry officials, Uri Savir and Yoel Singer, to travel to Norway soon thereafter for a firsthand look and to join the negotiations. At this point, Arafat in Tunis and Rabin in Jerusalem had been fully persuaded that the channel was more fact than fantasy, and both leaders were closely monitoring the drafting of a declaration of principles in which every nuance was fought over...