Word: tug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspect that America is full of thoughtful and spiritual citizens who are earnestly trying to make heads and tails of the abortion debate. I, for one, know that conflicting interests and beliefs tug at my conscience. It is the ultimate soul-searching question because it strikes at the heart of my religious beliefs and at the core of my conception of government...
...like members of other wealthy families, O'Malley may have felt the tug of the next generation, which often needs to put checking accounts ahead of box scores. Says Bob Graziano, the Dodgers' vice president of finance: "Peter and Terry combined have 13 children. A baseball team is not very liquid for those people." Left the team as part of an estate, the O'Malley beneficiaries would pay an estate tax of 55% on all assets after the first $5 million, as opposed to a capital gains tax of about 28% on profits from selling the team...
...sure way to measure how much the Internet will change our lives, but the most basic truth about technological revolutions is that they change everything they touch. Just as the first telescopes forever altered our sense of where we sit in the cosmos, so the Internet may press and tug at our most closely held beliefs. Will the Net change religion? Is it possible that God in a networked age will look, somehow, different...
...Sergeant Thomas Mueller spent 15 min. under the F-15's sleek skin on May 17, 1995, finishing a repair job left undone by others. Mueller, Technical Sergeant William Campbell and a third man rebolted a pair of flight-control rods to two hookups that relayed the pilot's tug on his control stick to the movable flaps that control the plane's flight. Mueller, a highly regarded 17-year Air Force mechanic, double-checked the work with a mirror and flashlight...
...suave direction of Jonathan Frakes, who also plays the Enterprise's second-in-command, the movie glides along with purpose and style. It also allows for a fun detour into a "holographic novel" set in the dear Deco days of Indiana Jones. But it's mainly a three-way tug of souls among Picard, Data and the queen of all the Borg. When she whispers to her onetime conquest Picard, "You can't begin to imagine the life you denied yourself," she opens the movie up to the ache of memory--to a good man's second thoughts when...