Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday night the run-ins exploded into a full-fledged battle, with soldiers chasing and shooting protesters with rubber bullets at close range. By dawn at least 14 civilians had been killed; more than 200 were reported wounded. At the Assembly building, sealed off by loops of razor wire and thousands of soldiers and police, legislators passed 12 toothless decrees that only glancingly acknowledged the students' demands to exorcise all memory of Suharto's dictatorial New Order...
...Communications, a New York City research firm. That's a tiny few compared with the 27 million Americans plodding along with home-PC modems running at 28,800 to 56,000 BPS. But cable companies are pouring billions into upgrading their networks to handle data traffic over the same wire that brings you ER and championship bass fishing. Tele-Communications Inc., Cox Communications, Comcast and more than a dozen other cable companies offer a high-speed online service called @Home that is available to about 10 million households. Time Warner Cable and MediaOne offer a similar service called Road Runner...
...Source" would want the boast spoken by James Earl Jones and accompanied by John Williams theme music. In fact, the title has been appropriated by the Onion, a droll weekly newspaper published in Madison, Wis., devoted to producing deadpan, dead-on parodies of the resolutely low-key news reports wire services put out. Consider these recent headlines...
...palpably changed human relationships, for better and for worse. We can imagine the closeness and joy an elderly Eastern European babushka must have felt in the early 20th century when she used a telephone for the first time, and heard the chirping words of her grandchild coming over the wire from the New World. We can lament the suburban neighborhoods that grew quiet when television held post-war children in the living room in the hours when they used to play Kick the Can. We can relax as planes, trains and automobiles zip us around the shrinking world--Boston today...
...expect a real battle on Saturday, and weenjoy battles--that's what we play for," Wheatonsaid. "The games that go down to the wire andreally get the adrenaline going make it fun, andthat's what we expect on Saturday...