Word: hooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...easing sanctions in return for a renewed arms inspection team. But Baghdad clearly believes it?s in a position to drive a hard bargain, since ending sanctions is the overriding concern of most of Washington's Gulf War allies. The Europeans aren't likely to let him off the hook, but the U.S. is finding its more hard-line position on sanctions a rather lonely one - and the worst-case scenario for Washington is that the sanctions regime simply collapses in the absence of agreement, which means Saddam wins...
...general's failing health and mental faculties got him off the hook after 18 months under house arrest in Britain, and few believe he'll actually get his day in court in Chile. Prosecuting him now may be more an exercise in stripping him of his respectability and shaming him for the crimes of his regime, for which he last week accepted political responsibility. It's also an expression of the independence of Chile's judiciary and a stress test for its reborn democracy...
...California software companies, FlashPoint and ActiveShare, are working to make Web-coding capabilities standard features on the internal operating systems of digital cameras. The companies have begun testing wireless solutions with insurance companies and Web auction houses. By next year, Internet-ready SprintPCS phones will be able to hook up to a Kodak DC290 digital camera and send pictures to a Sprint website. Polaroid is developing a $350 digital camera with a built-in modem for release next spring. The first version will require a regular phone-line connection, but future versions could be wireless...
...year, are scams. "They offer a service of sorts but don't really do what they say they will do," says Apley. Nearly every one of their patent searches comes back with favorable results, often raising the hopes of inventors by estimating a huge market potential. After that hook is set, the rest is easy: clients are then quickly lured into paying huge amounts (the average inventor loses $20,000) for services that are either useless or available elsewhere for far less money. The companies' "marketing" consists mainly of blind-mail brochures to manufacturers that never look at them. Most...
...negotiators went in suggesting that the scale of U.S. forests was sufficient to cut its emission reduction target in half. Needless to say, the Europeans aren't having any of it, dismissing the proposals as a specious attempt to let the world's biggest polluter off the hook...