Word: walls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall when these guys go down to the Petroleum Club for cocktails...
...work, debating issues with President Jiang Zemin, delivering a major speech, engaging in wonky chatfests with "ordinary" Chinese citizens, and he seemed to enjoy those too. Much of the time, though, Clinton and his family were touring, gazing at the fabulous terra-cotta army of Xian, the Great Wall, the neon-lit Shanghai Bund at night, the ethereal karst mountains of Guilin and the towering tangle of Hong Kong's skyscrapers. It was a lot more fun than hanging around Washington not answering questions about Monica Lewinsky. As White House spokesman Michael McCurry put it, referring to last week...
...Japanese practice of lean inventory management that delivers parts and tools to workers precisely as needed. At a 500,000-sq.-ft. parts plant in Auburn, Wash., assembly teams build everything from wing parts to landing-gear doors in self-contained "cells" that replaced assembly lines that snaked from wall to wall...
Those that simply kill termites outright probably aren't good enough by themselves, says entomologist Ken Grace of the University of Hawaii. "If there's an area where others are dying, they'll wall it off and avoid it." So termite fighters are looking instead at slow poisons. One of the most promising is hexaflumuron, an insect-growth regulator that interferes with the termites' molting process. Bugs that have ingested the stuff don't notice any effects at first, so they spread it throughout a colony without suspecting they're under attack. Then, when it's time to shed their...
...nothing to do with the heart, of course. It occurs when acidic juices from the stomach gurgle their way past a doughnut-shaped valve and into the esophagus. Unlike the stomach, the esophagus has no protective lining against corrosion. Repeated bouts of reflux eat away at its inner wall, triggering excessive scarring and bleeding. Sometimes the acid reaches the vocal cords, causing hoarseness. Other times it spills over into the lungs, triggering a potentially serious condition that mimics asthma...