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live wire Electronics a wire carrying an electric current |
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| When asked to choose the technology they could not live without, youth in nine of the 11 countries surveyed chose the internet over mobile phones and television (The Age Live Wire supplement, 1/6/06, p. In Watching the Play, 2004, Li transforms a famous photograph of President Nixon and Jiang Qing (a political live wire who was also Mao's second wife) into a kaleidoscopic patchwork that blurs the line between mark making and figuration. The appeals court held that summary judgment was precluded by genuine issues of material fact as to whether the supervisors knew that the inmate could suffer a severe shock as a consequence of working on a live wire without protective gloves. |
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