Word: bend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refreshed from walking but I couldn't bend my leg," he said...
...pointers along the way and tell you if you had toilet paper stuck to the bottom of your shoe. Looking at the world through the magazine's rose-tinted cat-eye glasses convinced me to hang in there, that new ideas and a hip new world were around every bend. Maybe I was just projecting my erstwhile wish for a big sister on a bunch of hapless staff writers. I'm glad, though, that I don't need hand-holding anymore, because Jane makes the world feel like a vast desert populated only by celebrity wannabes, empty tubes of M.A.C...
...economic traffic jams the world has ever seen. Discipline has always been Zhu's touchstone, from his early days as a lowly planning official to his current position as China's fiscal field marshal. When he was mayor of Shanghai in 1988, two relatives asked him over dinner to bend strict residency laws so they could come to live in the port city. Zhu turned them down, according to another family member present, saying, "What I can do, I have done already. What I cannot do, I will never...
...Justice" granted its teaching fellows a great deal of power-in fact, too much power. in addition to steering section discussions and setting paper guidelines, each section leader was given the authority to determine his own method of grading first-year students. While some section leaders were willing to bend over backward to help the new students, others graded first-years as stringently as seniors. And though both options have merit, this inconsistency across sections of the same class should cease. First-year grading should be standardized across each course, by a consensus of the teaching fellows and the course...
...wasn't exactly a display of super strength. The "grip," generated by four polymer strips designed to bend in response to electrical charges, was barely noticeable. But 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...