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Word: barring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that force is more than enough for the individual strips to wipe dust from the windshield of a palm-size rover that NASA and the Japanese space agency isas will use to explore an asteroid in 2003. "Clearing dust may not seem like a big deal," says Yoseph Bar-Cohen, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who created the muscles. But using old-fashioned gears and motors, he says, would make the wiper mechanism "bigger and heavier than the whole rover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASA Builds Muscles | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...quality of the music here probably cannot be blamed on their age. If the album had lived half-way up to one brilliant proposed title, "Fuck Oasis and Fuck You," I wouldn't be able to recommend it more highly. Instead, it just sucks in a genial bar-rock kind of way. I could single out some songs for being egregiously inferior, but why rub their in it? The Pretty Things deserve to be every bit as rich and famous as the Stones, but this is not evidence likely to sway anyone. Benjamin L. McKean

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Pretty Things | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...incident] is shocking, but not thatshocking on St. Patrick's Day," said William F.Abely '99, who said he had witnessed several minorbarroom brawls at the Crimson Bar and Grille thesame night

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Students Assaulted Near Adams House | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

Established inside, we are nearly suffocated by the heat, humidity and mass of humanity all smooched together. We hit the bar. Beer seems to be the drink of choice, so we go with that. Equipped, we check out the clientele, which is noticeably homogenous-looking. Women wear revealing tank-tops with tight black pants or jeans, while men sport head-to-toe Abercrombie and Fitch ensembles. It's generally a good-looking crowd, and everyone is having a blast...

Author: By Pamela S. Wasserstein, | Title: WHO'S ON | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

Again, we hit the bar and buy more beer. Two guys next to us ask if they can buy us a beer. The one closer to me is swaying quit alarmingly, and I'm scared he will puke on me. "We could go drink 'em over there," he says, gesturing to a couch where a couple is making...

Author: By Pamela S. Wasserstein, | Title: WHO'S ON | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

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