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...emotional impact on the German government and public as the crisis in Yugoslavia. One explanation for the strong German support of Croatia is that German unification in 1990 flowed from the very self-determination that Slovenes and Croats are now attempting to exercise. Another is that Germany has a built-in lobby in nearly 500,000 Croats living in the country. Millions of German tourists, moreover, have long enjoyed the Croatian coast as a kind of central European Riviera...
Consider the screwdriver. Simple. Utilitarian. And hopelessly out of date. Few people who have put together a cabinet with a cordless screw turner will ever happily go back to driving Phillips-heads by hand. The most advanced power screwdrivers even come with built-in computer systems that sense when a screw is running into resistance and turn up the torque accordingly...
From greeting to goodbye, Rodriguez acted like a charming host. Enthroning himself behind a built-in Formica desk, he said, "My time is yours. Ask anything you want. I won't be offended...
...versatile Viking is strictly homegrown. Back in 1980, Mississippi contractor Fred Carl Jr., with some prodding from his wife, designed a range with "zero clearance." Translation: although the ovens produce a powerful 55,000 BTUs, built-in insulation allows the stove to touch kitchen cabinets on either side. Gone was the fire hazard posed by overheated professional ranges, and so too the equatorial ambient temperature well known to chefs. Viking shipped its first models in 1986; they immediately caught...
Advocates of the law point out that a built-in override system allows local voters under Proposition 2 1/2 to choose to raise their property taxes at any time...