Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classes will begin Wednesday, September 16--three class days earlier than usual--to avoid conflict with Rosh Hashanah. And in 1999, classes will start Tuesday, September 21, one day late, to avoid conflict with Yom Kippur. The additional day, necessary to complete the required 125 instructional days for the year, will be added to the spring 2000 term...
Consider a few examples that I observed. A dishwasher I knew had surpassed the minimum total hours needed to join the union, and thus earn benefits. The day after informing the management that he would like to begin receiving those benefits, he was fired...
Rudenstine said in a statement from the Medical School News Office that a nation-wide search for Tosteson's replacement will begin immediately...
...radar, Doppler radar, made use of the fact that radio waves shift frequency depending on whether the objects they bounce off are advancing or receding. In this case, the objects that create the Doppler shift are water droplets inside storm clouds. As the winds inside these clouds begin to spin, the droplets show up on radar screens as tighter and tighter swirls...
...curious way, Crichton and Martin have outsmarted themselves. To begin with, tornadoes don't make very good movie villains. They're big and scary, all right, but there is a certain sameness in their MOs. If you've seen one of them transport a large object from point A to point B, you've pretty much seen them all. This predictability is exactly the opposite of director Jan de Bont's last film, Speed, in which you could never guess what would happen when Sandra Bullock wheeled her bus around a corner...