Word: locking
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...state law outlawing sales of aerosol paint cans to minors, are churning out new penalties for taggers. A measure that would revoke the driver's license of anyone caught writing a graffito has been sent to Governor George Deukmejian for signing. Another bill would require store owners to lock up millions of cans of spray paint to prevent shoplifting by taggers. But it is unlikely that such supply-side measures will quench the tagging urges of the Los Angeles spray-can artist known as Chaka and his competitor Ozone, who have left their gaudy signatures some 15,000 times across...
...years IBM's competitors have been doggedly pushing to break the lock the American giant holds on the global market for computers. Still, Big Blue controls more than 35% of the worldwide business, far more than any of its rivals. But last week Japan's leading computer firm, Fujitsu, moved somewhat closer to realizing the goal when it agreed to pay $1.3 billion for an 80% stake in International Computers Limited, Britain's leading computer manufacturer. The deal, which must still be approved by the British government, is Japan's largest acquisition in the computer industry, and will give...
Daniel Schulte, a senior scientist at the optical laboratory at the Lock-heed Palo Alto Research Laboratory in California, said an error of that magnitude was "astonishing...
...Venezuelans stiffed us. They really did." The Bush Administration official was complaining about how Venezuelan authorities placed Orlando Bosch, a convicted anti-Castro Cuban terrorist, on an airliner bound for Miami in February 1988. His arrival in the U.S. presented the Reagan Administration with a quandary: lock Bosch up or free a man widely seen as a hero in Florida's Cuban-exile community...
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: FLOOD (Elektra). When they're good, they're winningly whimsical and goofy. When they're off the mark (as in their current cover of the old novelty item Istanbul, Not Constantinople), you just want to lock these guys in their room so they can't come out and play...