Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make movies I haven't seen," says film-lab fellow Patrick Stettner, 31, of New York City. I realize, just in the nick of time, that it would be inappropriate to hug him. Stettner, who works as a billing secretary at a Manhattan law firm, was selected on the strength of a darkly comic screenplay he had written about the dehumanizing effect of contemporary corporate culture, particularly on women...
...fellow fellows--all selected on the strength of their screenplays--have wrung wit and wisdom out of racial stereotypes, the paralysis of guilt, the gift of redemption. Five of the eight are women, two are black, one is Native American and another is Asian. They have one thing in common: a story to tell. Which, in Hollywood these days, passes for experimental filmmaking...
...hurt the spine," Watkins says. "Pros don't generate these peak torques on their spine like the amateur does, because of coordinated muscle function. They can still get in trouble, because they do it 10,000 times. But it's not because they don't have the coordinated muscle strength to protect their backs...
...regulations are updated, business will go to Japan or South Korea." There is even a national security rationale to allowing U.S. exports of better computers. If other countries like China use our computers, says Shannon, "it gives us a better understanding of how their systems work. We know the strength and limitations of our computers and how to get into them." The updated regulations will still keep top-of-the line, state-of-the-art, national security computers off limits. The revised regulations also require congressional clearance -- and some conservative Republicans may want to make an issue of them...
...right? The wide differences of opinion on matters other than the outlook for interest rates and inflation probably reflect the extent to which the length and strength of the expansion--if it lasts through next February, it will be the longest in U.S. history--have rewritten the rule book for forecasting. For at least two years, economists following conventional models have predicted a slowing of growth and modest rises in unemployment and inflation; the exact opposite has happened. So forecasters must search for new models, and it's anyone's guess who will find the most accurate one. But unless...