Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think about it: if I pull a ( insert student politician's name here) droning on and on about what the hell the dining staff was thinking when they printed out nutrition information for this year, why read? You might as well get that extra 10 minutes of sleep...
...Still a Man's World. Men make war, run the government and maintain sole custody of the remote control. They also cause the most political trouble: the Keating Five, Abscam, Iran-contra. Martha Mitchell tried to insert herself into Watergate but got stuck with a hypodermic needle and put to bed before we could hear much from...
...more sophisticated--and malicious--hands, the defect can be used to insert a "Trojan horse," a program that can stealthily take over your PC and, for instance, grab your passwords. More than 17 million PCs have the affected versions of Microsoft's Outlook 98 and Outlook Express and Netscape's Communicator...
...beef up teaching standards in the state without putting teachers down. Texas Governor George W. Bush, who is testing the presidential waters, is also going at the issue indirectly by condemning "this business of passing children through our schools who can't read." The subtext: this Governor can insert himself in the classroom but won't push teachers out of the way. New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato is the exception to the rule: while his campaign for re-election this November has embraced traditional Democratic causes as varied as the environment and health-care reform, he's nonetheless stuck...
Kodak has introduced a new PC accessory that quickly converts pictures shot with APS film into a digital format for onscreen viewing, printing or e-mailing. Simply insert a roll of developed APS film into the Advantix Film Drive ($349, available in July), and images are digitized directly from negatives for optimal quality...