Word: weren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to be much easier to tell which of us were nuts and which weren't. Take, for example, a recent trip to a California desert to check out a scrubby campsite in the middle of the sand trap that stretches from San Diego to Phoenix. The nowhere setting and psycho temperature, a relatively cool 112[degrees] on a recent afternoon, tells you right away that the 100 to 150 squatters parked there this summer--several thousand others always flee the heat and return in October--are whacked out of their gourd...
...doing well" underlines the grounds for skepticism. U.S. investigators continue to probe for the forensic evidence crucial to establishing a "fingerprint" modus operandi that could help identify the bombers: Reports from Nairobi that the terrorists used the plastic explosive Semtex appear to confirm the notion that the attackers weren't amateurs...
...dance was a slow one. Nothing happened for the first month. Starr's folks were busy talking to other witnesses, in an apparent design to spook Monica into throwing in her lot with Starr. Some Starr allies were wary of Monica's new sharpie dealmakers; they weren't sure how much contact Cacheris had with his old tennis partner Bob Bennett, a Clinton attorney. And so just as Monica had changed her lawyers, Starr needed to change his. He pulled into the case an old Stein colleague, Sam Dash, a fellow member of the small legal freemasonry that had survived...
...attachment whose file name can be an executable program thousands of lines long. Apparently, someone forgot to set a size limit on file names for attachments. Oops. While Microsoft and Netscape say they've yet to hear of any hackers exploiting the bug, "I would be surprised if there weren't some bad guys out there who already had this in their tool kit," says Cheswick...
After our eyes were adjusted to the low light, we went up to the black rectangle and looked at it, and we still weren't impressed. Then I went to touch it, and it wasn't there. As far as I reached in any direction from the edge of the rectangle, there was nothing, and there was nothing to see. It really looked like a "limitless space." I was very impressed, and now it is my favorite piece, because it tricked me into thinking that it was stupid...