Word: riveting
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JACKIE KENNEDY ONASSIS She died in 1994, but bios of her still rivet us with accounts of her premarital sex life...
...relatives who Nella turns to for shelter are equally unique. Georgia, played at full throttle by Zoe Sarnat, is a white-trash-from-hell maniac, who constantly deflects attention away from the rivet in her head and towards the destitute houseguests. Her husband, Howard, (Alex Haseltine) is even more over...
...worked for years literally disappear before his eyes. If it were simply another smokestack victim of America's decline in manufacturing, it would just be allowed to sit and rust. Something stranger is happening, though: the plant has been sold to the Chinese, and they are taking it apart rivet by rivet and shipping it back to . their country, where they will rebuild it to help satisfy China's insatiable industrial appetite. Thought to have expanded at a torrid rate of 13% in 1993, China's economy has been the fastest growing in the world for two years...
...said he thought the "likeliest explanation" for the damage was stress failure, perhaps compounded by maintenance problems. The ripping away of the fuselage skin appeared to have occurred along rivet lines, he said...
Unfortunately, the scandal failed to rivet Harvard's attention to the role of the CIA on campus for more than a passing moment. What is wrong with the Harvard community that it can let such a seminal academic issue pass without comment, much less examination? President Bok, who was so concerned with academic freedom last semester, did not issue any public statement on the CIA-training program...