Word: wrists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With those two quick flicks of the wrist, Harvard's Bambi Taylor gave the Crimson field hockey squad a 2-1 triumph over Springfield on Soldiers Field yesterday...
...morning Ann Logan, 29, breezed through the doors of the Ar cadia Outpatient Surgery Inc. in Arcadia, Calif. Within an hour, she would undergo surgery to remove a lump of scar tissue from her breast. Logan snapped a plastic name band on her wrist, took her seat on a soft, brown leather sofa and began thumbing through a magazine. Hers was not going to be a long stay: a quick (55 minute) visit to the lemon-yellow operating suite, a brief rest in an equally cheerful recovery room, and then on her feet and out the door...
Weinberger's crackdown was prompted in part by a Pentagon report that disclosed scandalous price increases-as much as 3,725%-for spare parts being sold to the military. Critics derided the disciplinary steps as mere wrist slaps, but Weinberger disagrees: "We want to do something to ensure that we don't continue contracts like these...
Ever since the first pong was pinged, video games have been accused of increasing crime and school absenteeism, decreasing learning and concentration, and causing a mysterious ailment called video wrist. But according to a conference sponsored last week by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the mothers and fathers of River City may breathe easier. Researchers and scientists suggested that video games may turn out to be one of the most powerful teaching tools ever devised. "Many view video games with alarm," observed David Perkins, a research director at the school, "but in the eye of some educators gleams...
...would prohibit Americans from buying imports at prices that have been subsidized in any way by foreign governments or influenced by anything other than free-market forces. "For the first offense," the bill says, the perpetrator shall have his right hand severed at the wrist." This law, Kirkland implies, would quickly eliminate the U.S. import problem. He offers an added proviso: "Any person ... apprehended in the act of making a free-trade speech to the Council on Foreign Relations ... or to any other such forum shall have his tongue extracted by heated tongs...