Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some similar phenomenons like carpal tunnel syndrome are well-documented, Coley says "Almost all students coming in with upper-extremity symptoms do not have carpal tunnel syndrome...
...decision day for Iraq. For the first time in nearly a year, the thorny question of sanctions is set to come up before the U.N. Security Council Monday. But if Iraqi leaders think their oft-quoted vision of "light at the end of the tunnel" is going to be shared by their 15 adjudicators, they have another think coming. "I predict there will be no agreement to anything being done on sanctions," said British ambassador Sir John Weston. The reason: Richard Butler's claim that UNSCOM has made "virtually no progress" in recent weapons inspections. Even the Russians...
...Harvard. Perhaps it is best, though, that the plaque does not go into details about the exact cause of John's death--it was a particularly nasty case. As superintendent of the project, Kelly was directing a crane, lowering an empty bucket into the excavation site for the subway tunnel. So engrossed was he in this responsibility that he failed to notice when the 25-foot crane inexplicably began to teeter. A Cambridge patrolman shouted at Kelly to "get out of the way," but noise prevented him from hearing the warning signal. The unit toppled completely, and Kelly was buried...
...made myself a whole list of things I wanted to do two weeks before my thesis was due, in order to see the light at the end of the tunnel," Lider-Johnson said...
...refuse to believe that we are all inherently self-interested pawns in a vast teleological game played by invisible hands. The myth that the laws of the free market will inexorably lead us to the light at the end of some economic and social tunnel is just that--a myth, and a dangerous one at that. We refuse to believe that we must live amidst exploitation, inhumanity, greed, and massive inequality, and call this "irrepressible." We refuse to believe that stopping a sweatshop here and there is the best...