Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest doubts center on the validity of Zemsky's measures of such amorphous qualities as "confidence," which struck some of the participants as mushy. "He's got to be a bit sharper in defining the qualitative measures," says David Paris, associate dean of faculty at Hamilton College. Zemsky plans to do a second test this coming year and hopes to have the project up to scale with 600 institutions by 2001. If the schedule holds, future collegians may have a better view of what they're buying in the next century...
...troubled and divided Hawaii since 1993, when the state supreme court (in its first gay case ever) declared that the state was violating its constitution in denying marriage licenses to gays and lesbians. No sanctioned same-sex weddings have yet occurred because the court's ruling hedged a bit, calling for more debate. But if the amendment is voted down next month, and the court sticks by its original reasoning (as it's expected to do), the debate ends. Hawaii will become the first jurisdiction--certainly in the U.S. and probably anywhere on the planet--to allow gays fully equal...
...spent a few years in a bit of a fog, living abroad with his parents (his father now works in Saudi Arabia), attending a boarding school in Switzerland. Somehow, he chose to return to where he grew up, to enroll in his father's alma mater, the University of Wyoming, thinking of becoming a diplomat. Short and slight, he knew he fit a gay stereotype. And while open, he was cautious. But just days before he died, he told a friend that he finally felt safe...
...gourmet end of the spectrum, the eating gets better. Clif Bars, the taste standard of the category, are sweet and chewy, just a bit denser than a granola bar. And Balance Bars make a decent stand-in for a candy bar. The trouble is that the taste comes at a price. A honey-peanut Balance Bar has 200 calories and six grams of fat--that's twice the calories of a banana and six times the fat. Balance Bar says 30% fat is ideal, but many nutritionists say it's too high. Clif's cookies 'n cream packs...
...higher costs of the fancier hotels will make breaking even a bit more daunting. Wynn needs to take in a record $2.5 million a day to make the new Bellagio pay for itself. "Lot of money, eh?" he says, winking. "Guess how much the Mirage made a day last year? $1.7 million." He shrugs at the idea that he might end up cannibalizing his own ranks of gamblers at the Mirage. "We're just going to change the pecking order. The other casinos will just move down a notch," he says...