Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This was a moment I'd waited for. I've got a bunch of computers at home, but until now, none was networked because, frankly, it's just too damned hard. Who wants to drill holes, pull cable and figure out how to route data between a bunch of machines in different rooms? Not me. Yet there's a growing need for a simple solution. By 2000, half of all homes that have PCs will have lots of PCs. Networking them saves money, since even the dumbest machine will be able to share files with the smartest. Or connect...
...owed his teammates an apology. Even at the very end of the season, when they were embarrassing the Padres in the Series, there was catcher Joe Girardi, squatting on the field while pitchers nailed his body with wild throws that he could block only with his body--a practice drill-hazing ritual that most catchers perform only during spring training...
Visiting the dentist may have just become easier. The FDA has approved Millennium, a laser-powered drill that uses a stream of water instead of metal blades to excavate tooth surfaces. The advantage: Millennium causes less pain than conventional drills, and it doesn't emit that hair-raising high-pitched whine...
Hardly a day goes by when some Wall Street analyst doesn't knock the oil-services industry. These companies, which help the oil giants explore and drill for crude and natural gas, were market darlings from 1995 to 1997, but now have more detractors than anything west of Indonesia. Though many oil-service firms are already trading near two-year lows, analysts' earnings estimates for them will soon be revised further downward. No brokerage will want the likes of Halliburton or Schlumberger on its "recommended" list. The gloom around these stocks is only deepening. And I am buying them hand...
DIED. CARY MIDDLECOFF, 77, dentist who traded in his drill to become a top golfer and the leading money earner on the PGA Tour in the 1950s; in Memphis, Tenn. Middlecoff won 40 professional tournaments in his prime playing years, including two U.S. Opens and the Masters...