Word: pull
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...Nighter: 1. What you pull the evening before the due date of that 20-page paper you haven't started. 2. Store 24 flourishes because of these...
...robotic arm on its Mars Polar Lander was a success. Last week F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., chairman of the House Committee on Science, ridiculed the report, pointing out that the whole contraption crashed on the red planet before the robotic arm was ever deployed. Was NASA trying to pull a fast...
...peace." But that was an oversimplification. Assad was committed to peace--but only on his inflexible terms. He was intent on doing it his way, at his pace. White House insiders spent much of this past year privately speculating that Assad wouldn't pass up the chance to pull off a deal before Clinton left office. But in recent months he seemed willing to do just that, most notably snubbing the President during a hastily convened Geneva meeting in March. Clinton arrived at the meeting full of hope. He left--as so many negotiators have over the years--reminded that...
...century hardware thing. You really don't need complicated glass to crunch numbers, and computing goo probably won't be all that difficult to build. (The trickier aspect here may be turning data into something brain cells can understand. If you knew how to get brain cells to manage pull-down menus, you'd probably know everything you needed to know about brain cells...
...proposed work is in violation of the ABM treaty. By that reading, if the Russians won't green-light the system, Washington would have to alert Moscow in the fall in order to comply with the requirement that either side give six months' notice of a decision to pull out of the treaty. The Russians have refused to give such a green light because even the limited system President Clinton wants deployed is the crucial first step toward the comprehensive missile umbrella favored by Republicans, which would neutralize Russia's nuclear arsenal...