Word: chained
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...Department officials want Lazaro to agree to that demand. But he said, "I won't cooperate." Neither will his media-savvy daughter Marisleysis, 21, who tearily portrays herself as Elian's new mom. And no one at Justice seems to have a clue about how to break a "human chain" of thousands of angry exiles--who practiced the resistance tactic last week--and pluck Elian from Lazaro's home without setting Miami ablaze in violent protests...
...very innovations that make its own products faster and increase the supply of bandwidth also supercharge demand for bandwidth, as faster computers mean we will want to download more video, more music and more of everything--all through Cisco-powered networks. "The user is the slowest link in the chain," says Varian. "We're limited by our biological perception--we can only read so fast, music only makes sense at a certain speed. But in terms of computers and routers, they can handle any speed...
...egged itself on into a frenzy beyond imagining. Before Sam Hose was doused with oil and set afire, he had his ears and fingers cut off and the skin stripped from his face. Jesse Washington, a retarded farm worker convicted of killing a white woman, was hung by a chain over a bonfire and repeatedly dipped into the flames...
...production is faithful to the gripping (if didactic) original, in which an accidental bomber launch against Moscow triggers a chain of excruciating decisions. In a way it's a natural for live TV--taut, unfolding largely in real time. But the original drew its charge from the threat of war with an empire that no longer exists (though its weaponry does). So why do it now? Because George Clooney wanted to. He made Fail Safe a priority when he pitched shows to CBS; the network in turn insisted that he act in it (he plays a bomber pilot...
...newspapers, 13 of them published under so-called joint operating agreements (JOAs), in which separate ownerships jointly run the business operations while editorial staffs are kept independent. In recent years, though, the act and the JOAs have come under increasing pressure, most recently in Hawaii, where Gannett, the giant chain that owns the Honolulu Advertiser, sought to buy and close down the rival Star-Bulletin. The case is being fought in the state's courts, where it is argued that the sale would violate an agreement that was supposed to last until...