Word: tunnelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Workers and their employers in many sectorsseem to be taking notice of CTDs and a relateddisorder known as carpal tunnel syndrome, thoughtto be caused by the same types of motions andcharacterized by many of the same symptoms...
...there are always athletes eager for this indentured servitude. In the poignant three-hour documentary called Hoop Dreams (due out in the fall), about two teenage basketball prospects from Chicago, the sport's glamour is a flicker of light at the end of a long tunnel of family troubles, daunting schoolwork, perilous street life and their knowledge that stardom is a buyer's market. But they persevere because the dream is all they have...
Having mentioned some of the finer aspects of the dining experience, let me move on to the less glorious parts. The line, which can trap the unlucky first year for 30 minutes, is most comparable to quicksand, or perhaps the traffic in the Callahan tunnel. Going in it may not seem so bad; but after 30 minutes in a warm, noisy knot o people the room begins to spin and the lights flicker...
...York Times story a couple weeks ago about the opening of the Chunnel--the wittily named tunnel under the English Channel--reported that the English are disgruntled about the impending arrival of hordes of "garlic-breathed" French. When Francois Mitterand visited Great Britain to participate in the project's ground-breaking ceremony, he was greeted with cries of "Froggy! Froggy! Froggy...
Closing down the collider will be costlybecause building contracts have been broken, andthe tunnel must be back-filled...