Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home and family and be by her husband's side when he runs. Working violates that rule. Being successful in a primarily male profession shatters it, as Hillary Clinton is learning. Most legal experts agree that Clinton took the needed steps to avoid conflicts, by entering into a virtual prenuptial agreement with her firm that anticipated every possible pitfall. She does not represent clients before state agencies, and she refuses her share of the firm's profits that flow from such work. "She's done everything that she can reasonably do and still practice law at a top law firm...
...hope that by that time their equipment will have greatly improved so they will no longer get cricks in their necks (from craning to watch a TV) and elbows (from manipulating long-handled instruments of awkward design). A few dream of operating by remote control, their heads encased in virtual-reality helmets. Don't laugh, they chide skeptics. On the drawing boards at SRI International is an inkling of just such a system, one that might someday allow a surgeon in St. Louis to operate on an astronaut in low earth orbit. Even better may be novel ways of destroying...
...with Buddhists in Japan is showing surprising appeal. As the campaign enters mid-stretch, rank-and-file union members, independents, rainbow-coalition minorities and educated, maverick Democrats are giving the former two-term California Governor a chance to build on his victories in Colorado and Nevada and a virtual tie in Maine...
...When one man told us that his friend had "connected" a week earlier, we had to wonder whether he meant that his friend had found a companion or had merely "gotten lucky." Our suspicions were not unfounded--one young woman told us that she had often been propositioned by virtual strangers who casually suggest "heading upstairs and getting a room...
Less than a week after finishing fifth in New Hampshire, Brown used his opposition to nuclear power to secure a virtual tie with former Massachusetts Senator Paul E. Tsongas in Maine. In the pas week, the former California governor has won the hotly contested Colorado primary and the Nevada caucuses...