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The Star suggests that Shields' breakdown may be in part attributable to the fact that the "stressed-out" actress is battling a "crippling disease": temporal mandibular joint syndrome, or TMJ, which sounds a bit like the aforementioned floppy trunk syndrome.
So for me, at least, this experiment tends to support Microsoft's contention that Jackson didn't really remove Internet Explorer as he claimed to have done but casts doubt on Microsoft's contention that you can't truly remove Internet Explorer without crippling Windows.
He writes compellingly about the grief of main character Mike Noonan--a successful lowbrow writer who experiences crippling writer's block after the death of his wife--and has a "real genius ...
The pro-bombing spin: NATO will soon attack the Serbs' tanks and troops directly, crippling their ability to slaughter the Kosovars.
Willis, probably fearing that compiling such a list would cause crippling writer's cramp, has refused.