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Looms Summary
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The weaving of thread into cloth has been practiced for many thousands of years. As it is today, woven fabric was created by criss-crossing threads over and over again to form a tight mesh. Fairly early on, devices were constructed to make the task of...
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Loom Information
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A loom is a machine or device for weaving thread or yarn into textiles. Looms can range from very small hand-held frames, to large free-standing hand looms, to huge automatic mechanical devices. A loom can also refer to an electrical cable assembly or...


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In Business Las Vegas
Hospital Strike Looms
11/24/2006: 581 words, approx. 2 pages
After a half-year of fruitless contract talks, the Service Employees International Union threatened a long-term strike of Valley and Desert Springs hospitals starting Dec. 4.The threat worked. Hospital officials have agreed to return to the bargaining table for three days, Nov. 27-29.It would be the...
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AP News
Digital TV transition looms
3/12/2007: 526 words, approx. 2 pages
Attention owners of primitive TVs: If you still use an antenna to watch "American Idol," your picture will disappear at midnight on Feb. 17, 2009, unless you buy something called a digital converter box.No one knows how much these boxes, which have yet to be...
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Wright wins Pulitzer for 'Looming Tower'
4/16/2007: 311 words, approx. 1 pages
The Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction was awarded Monday to Lawrence Wright for his book, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," a penetrating analysis of how Islamic fundamentalism has reshaped the modern world.Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff won the Pulitzer Prize for...
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The New York Observer
Shaheen looming over NH race
6/26/2007: 305 words, approx. 1 pages
Election Central, the campaign-watching arm of the Talking Points web empire, has a post taking note of the Romney-ish repositioning of Katrina Swett, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican Senator John Sununu in New Hampshire. Swett, who is the daughter of California...
 


 

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