Word: stroke
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...technology? Look at what Corporate Defense Strategies of Maywood, N.J., has on offer. Last year managers at a New York City import-export company suspected it was being robbed by two employees. CDS advised the firm to install Investigator, a software program that could furtively log every single stroke of the suspects' computer keys and send an encrypted e-mail report to CDS. Investigator revealed that the two were deleting orders from the corporate books after they were processed, pocketing the revenues and building their own company from within. The program picked up on their plan to return...
...aggressively competitive psyche--either of which could provide a margin of victory in races that are often won by hundredths of a second. In the fly, her muscular shoulders power in and out of the water with such remarkable grace that Quick points out the obvious: "Watch Jenny's stroke. It's the best in the world...
...floor. Gerald Ford (who we would later learn had just suffered a stroke) is about to take his seat. Secret Service agents and red-shirted First Union Center security guards are blocking my way. I use to like the Secret Service, but now I am annoyed...
...presidents framed the proceedings in a mute, touching way. George Bush the Elder acted the proud, mellow father in a non-speaking part. Ronald Reagan could not come to Philadelphia, for melancholy reasons. Gerald Ford had a stroke in the midst of the convention. Extinct volcanoes. One generation passeth away. George and Laura Bush made much of their daughters' going off to college, which is, so to speak, where the boomers came in and the movie began. So the generational cycle is, belatedly but convincingly, accomplished...
...Search of Lost Time), is artful celebrity journalism about the beautiful people of Paris in the early 20th century. This was also when movies came of age; and the novel's shuffling of tenses, from present to past to conditional, has its film equivalent in the flashback--the lightning stroke of emotional teleportation that brings a memory instantly, poignantly, to the mind...