Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This environment reporter's idea of interactive technology was to tap the computer case with a 12-in. adjustable-end wrench to correct vapor lock and improve e-mail reception. Mostly on instinct, he patrolled the environment outdoors and avoided the World Wide Web. The information superhighway vanished last year, he noticed, at least as an annoying metaphor, and maybe the World Wide Web would go away...
...Herb Schrayshuen, 44, an engineer at a public utility in upstate New York, thought he knew the drill: toil away for another 15 or 20 years, then drift off into a cozy retirement on the back of a nice, fat company pension. But last summer his employer threw a wrench into that plan. The utility converted the old-fashioned pension system, in which employees earn the bulk of benefits during their last few years, into a new cash-balance plan, in which they earn at a steadier rate throughout their careers. It sounded simple enough, but once...
...KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I'M NOT a great fan of deadlines, myself. More than 20 years ago, the Roosevelt Hospital midwives had to wrench me from my mother. That same day, in that very hospital, my cohort Anna popped out two weeks ahead of schedule. I, on the other hand, was running late...
...know about you, but I'm not a great fan of deadlines, myself. More than 20 years ago, the Roosevelt Hospital midwives had to wrench me from my mother. That same day, in that very hospital, my cohort Anna popped out two weeks ahead of schedule. I, on the other hand, was running late...
...hard could this be? I picked up the wrench and started to loosen the bolts. I loosened and loosened, and it only took me about five minutes to realize that there are plastic covers on each of the bolts. Damn plastic covers...