Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...built his political reputation almost exclusively on the Chechnya campaign. "The plan may have been for Putin to fly down and raise the Russian flag over Grozny on the eve of Sunday's parliamentary elections," says Meier. "But if reports of the ambush prove true, that could throw a wrench in the works." Once Sunday's elections are over, Russia may be more inclined to seek a political solution. Seizing Grozny is, after all, primarily of symbolic importance, since most of the Chechen rebel forces have retreated intact into the mountains. But Putin may not want to still have...
...master alarms start to whoop. A voice demands, "What's going on?" or "What's happening?" Then the same voice urges, "Pull with me! Pull with me!" Twenty-seven seconds into the dive, the horizontal elevators on the tail that normally operate in tandem to stabilize the aircraft wrench in opposite directions: the left side pulls to make the plane climb, the right one pushes to keep it in a dive. Gravity and the two powerful Pratt & Whitney engines on the Boeing 767 continue to force the plane down. A second later, a small shield is flicked up over...
...Bell official said of the safety fixes. "This is not our aircraft." But the Marine inquiry said Bell was "contractually responsible" for providing the crew with a safe aircraft. The Army major in charge of monitoring Bell's work concurred. "Bell is the one responsible for wrench turning," he told Marine investigators, "and for the inspection of all that...
Just before the holiday weekend, HMOs threw a monkey wrench into the already convoluted politics of Medicare. The trade association for the managed care industry announced that HMOs would be increasing premiums or cutting benefits for most of the 6 million Medicare patients enrolled in their programs next year. Worse, some 250,000 Medicare patients would be dropped from HMO rolls altogether. The reason: The federal reimbursements for taking on Medicare patients are insufficient, said the industry. Medicare officials disagreed, but they limited their immediate public reaction to that of a muted ?disappointment? over a development that could seriously complicate...
...were selected from the audience and given scorecards, and "rival" poets went head to head, poem by poem, for the approval of the bar. What was great on paper wasn't always a crowd-pleaser. To win, a poem had to have more than literary merit--it had to wrench the words from their passivity on the page...