Word: wristing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grimmelmann, who got RSI while working for Microsoft Corp. two summers ago, says that he had to take his finals under special conditions the fall semester he returned because his wrist hurt so much when he tried to write. The special conditions allowed him extra time so that he could massage his wrists in between writing paragraphs...
With Harvard caught on its heels and Brown on an offensive rush, Prescott cycled behind the Crimson net and surfaced to the right of Harvard netminder J.R. Prestifilippo (24 saves) just in time to wrist a shot into the upper right hand corner...
...Egypt--all oppose the use of force this time around. They urge Clinton to pursue an ill-defined diplomatic solution, ratcheting up the pressure until Saddam blinks. Clinton would love to prevail in that fashion, but he's not holding his breath. He knows that Saddam responds to diplomatic wrist slaps the way a tank does to toy guns. The watered-down resolution passed last week by the U.N. Security Council, which hit Iraq with a ban on official travel, must be laughable to a dictator who rarely leaves his country...
Instead, each dining hall has card checkers--those usually forgotten men and women who swiftly grab our cards and, with one flick of the wrist, swipe them through the machine...
Last night, the board gave a mild slap on the wrist to 15 local business owners--among them the owners of The Hasty Pudding Club and Christy's in Harvard Square--who failed to attend a summer training session on underage alcohol consumption...