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...issued his jail-or-else warning. In support, abortion-rights advocates outside one of the clinics began to wave toothbrushes at Operation Rescue volunteers. Meanwhile, the judge accepted protection from federal marshals: anonymous threats had been phoned and mailed to his office and home. "This has been the most awkward and stressful time of my life," Kelly said. "It's scary...
...manufacturers like IBM and Commodore. Another loser: the picture telephone. First introduced by AT&T at the 1964 New York World's Fair, it allows callers to see as well as hear each other. But consumers considered the device -- at $8,000 a set -- not only too expensive but awkward. Undaunted, Sony unveiled a less expensive videophone using a still image but withdrew the product in 1988 because of consumer indifference. Mitsubishi discontinued its Visi-Tel picture phone earlier this year, selling the entire inventory of 38,000 phones at a deep discount to the Home Shopping Network...
...been under virtual house arrest since her trial and conviction 10 years ago for helping to carry out the Cultural Revolution that bloodied China from 1966 to 1976. Jiang, who was known to have throat cancer, may have wished to cut short her suffering. Her death comes at an awkward time for the Beijing government, concerned just now with the anniversary of the June 1989 massacre in Tiananmen. Although Jiang had nothing to do with that event, a public announcement of her death could conceivably ignite a new wave of disturbances...
There was an awkward delay in our departure. It took nearly 20 minutes for four burly bodyguards, using the butts of their automatic rifles, to force the huge Dobermans to a corner of the garden so that we could safely reach...
Those in the dock were not the only ones squirming through the kangaroo sessions. The Bush Administration was chafing too, embarrassed by the brutish behavior of a regime that it had risked so much to restore to power. Embracing a government as undemocratic as Kuwait's was awkward from the outset, but expectations were high that the liberated country would march briskly toward liberalization. Instead, the ruling band of brothers and cousins that runs the country seems to have settled comfortably into its old habits...