Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down by two-thirds," says a glum Dave Trench, 57, a machinery stock attendant at a Harnischfeger subsidiary in Nashua, N.H. "When I look at retirement, I might start to sweat." At least he still has his job--for now. Harnischfeger announced in late August that it soon will begin dismissing 3,100 employees, or a fifth of its work force...
PARADE Is a 1915 lynching fit material for a musical? Writer Alfred Uhry and director Harold Prince think so. Previews begin in November...
Indeed, the thrusters actually caused SOHO to begin spinning with its two solar panels nearly edge-on to the sun rather than facing it. Without solar energy, SOHO's batteries quickly drained, cutting off power to all its systems...
Only then will the SOHO team begin a two-month period of restarting and evaluating the spacecraft's systems and scientific packages in preparation for full operation in the fall. "So far we've found no damage whatsoever," says ESA's Credland. "It's incredible." Considering the odds that were stacked against the little spacecraft, incredible is probably an understatement...
Math teacher Zbigniew Zielina was puzzled by the silence. It was early in the school year, he was about to begin his algebra class, and the Santa Paula High School instructor detected none of the loud talk and scraping chairs that usually marked his students' entrance. He turned to investigate. "I see 30 kids quietly copying the questions," he recalls. "They were ready to work. In all my years, I have never seen this...