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However, a Time Magazine reconstruction of the long-suppressed Bavarian prosecutor's report indicates that a third kidnapper ( Reeve identifies Adnan Al-Gashey ) stood at the door of the western helicopter and raked the remaining five hostages with machine gun fire ; Gutfreund, Shorr, Slavin, Spitzer and Shapira were shot an average of four times each.
* Nobel Peace Prize laureate and environmental activist Wangari Maathai was asked by a Time magazine interviewer if she stood by a previous alleged claim that " AIDS is a biological weapon manufactured by the developed world to wipe out the black race ".
" This campaign, which has received nearly 200 million views on YouTube, not only stood out in the blending industry, but it has topped the AdAge list of " Top Viral Ads of All Time.
They were popular, powerful, frightening people, and the March of Time stood entirely alone in theatrical motion picture circles as a muckraker.
Time magazine, reviewing the novel on 31 March 1947, introduced Siouxland to its readers by quoting from the book: " By a river in the Siouxland he stood weeping.
* Time Out ( London ) wrote that they ' stole the show ' when they represented Russia in the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest, writing that they stood out as snakeskin heroes amongst all the taffeta and tuxedos.
Band ), were stranded in Atlanta by a blizzard and failed to make it to a Time concert in San Antonio, for which Jerome had to mime playing bass guitar on stage while Prince played Lewis ' part off stage, and Lisa stood in for Jimmy Jam.
The call letters stood for " In Our Time ".
Rumors abound as to what the letters DDT supposedly stood for, including Drop Dead Twice, Demonic Death Trap or Damien's Death Touch, Drop Down Town, Death Drop Technique and Damien's Dinner Time after Jake's pet python Damien.

Time and still
Time stands still as you climb the narrow, stone stairways in tiny villages clinging to steep mountain slopes or wander through story-book towns, perched atop lofty crags, their faces turned to the sea.
Time stands still every time Moritz, a 26-year-old Army Signal Corps veteran, goes into the field.
Mao is still regarded as one of the most important figures in modern world history, and was named one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time magazine.
In the 1728 version of the poem, the goddess Dulness notes that " Time himself stands still at her command ,/ Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land " ( Dunciad 1728, i, 69 – 70 ).
The other surviving 1960s B & W episodes that still exist are: " Arguments, Arguments "; " A House With No Love In It "; " Peace & Goodwill "; " In Sickness and In Health "; " State Visit "; " Alf's Dilemma "; " Till Closing Time Do Us Part "; " The Phone "; " The Blood Donor ".
But the basic tenet of " existentialism " has nothing at all in common with the statement from Being and Time " the ' essence ' of Dasein lies in its existence "— apart from the fact that in Being and Time no statement about the relation of essentia and existentia can yet be expressed, since there it is still a question of preparing something precursory.
Greenwich Mean Time is still the legal time in the UK ( in winter, and as adjusted by one hour for summer time ).
However, because Universal Time is synchronous with night and day, and more precise atomic-frequency standards drift away from this, UT is still used to produce a correction ( called a leap second ) to atomic time, in order to obtain a broadcast form of civil time that carries atomic frequency.
It is also still used in ads showing the network's current stars getting slimed from all sides in slow motion, and is used to slime the winner at the end of the Nick game show BrainSurge, which debuted in 2009 ( slime, as well as pies, was also used as a prize, rather than a penalty, in Nickelodeon's live daily game show Slime Time Live in the early 2000s ).
[...] I must not however conceal from Your Excellency, that the Gentry, well disposed, and heartily desirous as they are, to serve the Crown, and to serve it with Zeal, when formed into regular Corps, do not relish commanding a bare Militia, they never were used to that Service under the French Government, ( and perhaps for good Reasons ) besides the sudden Dismission of the Canadian Regiment raised in 1764, without Gratuity or Recompence to Offices, who engaged in our Service almost immediately after the Cession of the Country, of taking any Notice of them since, tho ' they all expected half pay, is still uppermost in their Thoughts, and not likely to encourage their engaging a second Time in the same Way ; as to the Habitants or Peasantry, ever since the Civil Authority has been introduced into the Province, the Government of it has hung so loose, and retained so little Power, they have in a Manner emancipated themselves, and it will require Time, and discreet Management likewise, to recall them to their ancient Habits of Obedience and Discipline ; considering all the new Ideas they have been acquiring for these ten years past, can it be thought they will be pleased at being suddenly, and without Preparation embodied into a Militia, and marched from their Families, Lands, and Habitations to remote Provinces, and all the Horrors of War, which they have already experienced ; It would give appearance of Truth to the Language of our Sons of Sedition, at this very Moment busily employed instilling into their Minds, that the Act was passed merely to serve the present Purposes of Government, and in the full Intention of ruling over them with all the Despotism of their ancient Masters.
These games were often joined in progress, as the regular start time for HNIC was still 8 p. m. Eastern Time and the Kings home games began at 7: 30 p. m. Pacific Time ( 10: 30 Eastern ).
MGM bought in 1944 the rights to Gone with the Wind and, at some point, the 1937 version of The Prisoner of Zenda for its 1952 remake ( all today part of the Turner Entertainment library owned by Time Warner ), and 20th Century Fox still holds rights to the remake of A Farewell to Arms.
In the Museum of Modern Art retrospective ( 2010 ), it was suggested that the pieces of the mirror falling into the ocean waves set up At Land ( 1944 ) as a direct sequel, while Deren's last scene in the latter film ( running with her hands up with a chess piece in one of them ) is then echoed by a scene in Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ), with that character still running.
He is also able to concentrate and time his motions well enough to step safely through the blades of a rapidly spinning fan and later claims that if any Time Lords still existed, he would be able to sense them.
Although this is still unclear as in " Journey's End " the Daleks call the Doctor " the last child of Gallifrey " and in The " End of Time " a Time Lord on the high council states that a prophecy referring to the Doctor and the Master " speaks of two children of Gallifrey ".
Although Super Princess Peach and Mario Hoops 3-on-3 still used Taylor's voice, other games, such as Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time and Super Mario Strikers have a new Peach voice, Nicole Mills.
Portugal moved to Central European Time and Central European Summer Time in 1992, but reverted to Western European Time in 1996 after concluding that energy savings were small, it had a disturbing effect on children's sleeping habits as it would not get dark until 22: 00 or 22: 30 in summer evenings and, during the winter mornings, the sun was still rising at 9: 00, with repercussions on standards of learning and school performance, and insurance companies reported a rise in the number of accidents.
Sex and the City still airs in syndication worldwide and has been listed on Entertainment Weeklys end-of-the-decade " best of " list and as one of Time magazine's 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME.

Time and for
`` Time for books '', she yelled, jingling a little five-and-dime store bell in her right hand.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
Time plays an essential part in our mortality, and suddenly for no reason he could imagine ( or admit ) the image of Peg laughing filled his mind -- so desirable, so lusty, so full of nuances of pleasure and joy.
You may apply for such an extension by filing Form 2688, Application For Extension Of Time To File, with the District Director of Internal Revenue for your district, or you may make your application in a letter.
Time perspective -- the ability to plan for the future and to postpone gratifying immediate wants in order to achieve long-range objectives -- is more easily developed if, from infancy on, the individual has been able to rely on and trust people and the world in which she lives.
Olivia De Havilland signed to do a Broadway play for Garson Kanin this season, `` A Gift of Time ''.
As the world's top sportsman -- pro or amateur -- Sports Illustrated tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer ( Time cover, May 2 ), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year.
Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry ( Time, Cover, July 14, 1958 ).
It is the basis for Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ), which is used for civil timekeeping all over the Earth's surface, and for Terrestrial Time, which is used for astronomical calculations.
This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.
The instant that the gravitational correction started to be applied serves as the epoch for Barycentric Coordinate Time ( TCB ), Geocentric Coordinate Time ( TCG ), and Terrestrial Time ( TT ).
His piece " A Dot in Time " ( for English Horn ) is an anagram of " Meditation ", what is actually what it is.
The video for " Takes A Little Time " was a new direction for Grant ; with a blue light filter, acoustic guitar, the streets and characters of New York City, and a plot, Grant was re-cast as an adult light rocker.

Time and these
Later Coleco continued adapting newer successful arcade games like Subroc, Time Pilot and Frenzy, the company also made inferior ports of many of these games for the Atari 2600 and Intellivision, in an effort to broaden its market.
Thus the aim developed, to provide a new time scale for astronomical and scientific purposes, to avoid the unpredictable irregularities of the mean solar time scale, and to replace for these purposes Universal Time ( UT ) and any other time scale based on the rotation of the Earth around its axis, such as sidereal time.
Difficulties were recognized, which led to these being in turn superseded in the 1990s by time scales Terrestrial Time ( TT ), Geocentric Coordinate Time GCT ( TCG ) and Barycentric Coordinate Time BCT ( TCB ).
These security barriers were breached on occasion by the Sontarans, by manipulating the more technological Vardans, who suborned the Doctor into sabotaging both of these from within ( The Invasion of Time, 1978 ).
The Time Lords use these figures to understand the concepts they represent and in some cases make deals with them and become their chosen champions.
Based on these votes, the Worst Film of All Time award was given to Plan 9 from Outer Space by Edward D. Wood, Jr.
MIDI interfaces intended for use as the centerpiece of a studio, such as the Mark of the Unicorn MIDI Time Piece, were made possible by a " fast " transmission mode that could take advantage of these serial ports ' ability to operate at 20 times the standard MIDI speed.
In the Roman Catholic Church, the terms for this Sunday ( and the two immediately before it — Sexagesima and Septuagesima Sundays ) were eliminated in the reforms following the Second Vatican Council, and these Sundays are part of Ordinary Time.
The success of these pavilions further influenced the 1967 Universal exhibition in Montreal, commonly referred to as Expo 67, where multi-screen highlights included In the Labyrinth, hailed by Time magazine as a " stunning visual display ," their review concluding: " such visual delights as Labyrinth ... suggest that cinema — the most typical of 20th century arts — has just begun to explore its boundaries and possibilities ," as well as A Place to Stand, which displayed Christopher Chapman's pioneering " multi-dynamic image technique " of shifting multiple images.
" All three movies focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination ; Time Bandits, through the eyes of a child, Brazil, through the eyes of a thirty-something year old, and Munchausen, through the eyes of an elderly man.
It is never entirely clear whether these events actually occurred or were merely a dream — the narrator says that when he initially found a comfortable-looking spot in the roots of the tree, he sat down, " and as my sceptical In Piers Anthony's Bearing an Hourglass, the potent Hourglass of the Incarnation of Time naturally moves the Incarnation in space according to the numerous movements of the globe through the solar system, the solar system through the galaxy, etc.
The key benefit of Time Domain reflectometry over other testing methods is the non-destructive method of these tests.
For the calculation of ephemerides, TDB was officially recommended to replace ET, but deficiencies were found in the definition of TDB ( though not affecting T < sub > eph </ sub >), and these led to the IAU defining and recommending further time scales, Barycentric Coordinate Time ( TCB ) for use in the solar system as a whole, and Geocentric Coordinate Time ( TCG ) for use in the vicinity of the Earth.
They arrived to find the colony's population almost annihilated by the Starving Time, which had left only 60 survivors out of the 500 who had preceded them, and most of these survivors were sick or dying.
In the 1969 reform of the Roman Rite, this intermediate season was removed, with these weeks becoming part of Ordinary Time.
In addition, he has been a " talent promoter " for the careers of Sheila E., Carmen Electra, The Time and Vanity 6, and his songs have been recorded by these artists and others ( including Chaka Khan, The Bangles, Sinéad O ' Connor, and even Kim Basinger ).
Time Team usually does not carry out excavations for these programmes, but may contribute a reconstruction.
* Time signal and radio clock stations: In North America, WWV radio and WWVH radio transmit at these frequencies: 2500 kHz, 5000 kHz, 10000 kHz, and 15000 kHz ; and WWV also transmits on 20000 kHz.
On the same subject, American feminist theorist and author of Gender Trouble Judith Butler wrote in the scholarly journal Diacritics an essay entitled " Further Reflections on the Conversions of Our Time ", in which she described the shift in these terms:

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