Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly, Tracy had to face the tougher rubber on the night, and neither his defense nor his offense were much of a help. The vaunted Harvard power play, coming into the evening at a 31 percent success rate, drew a blank in five attempts, and the blue-liners had trouble moving the puck out of the Harvard zone all night...
...example, one nice tip I received is that with WFW 6 you can edit text directly in the Print Preview screen without having to close it first. This comes in extremely handy when one needs to delete or add blank lines, as is often the case with writing cover letters...
...White House and Congress are fed up with giving NASA a blank check for cost overruns and failed missions. Two years ago, the agency asked for a five- year budget of $106 billion, but the Bush Administration chopped it to $96 billion, and Clinton's budget cutters have set a target of $71 billion for the same period. The President has decreed that Space Station Freedom will be built only if NASA teams up with its old space-race rivals, the Russians, to develop a joint project that minimizes costs...
...best to maintain some sort of serio-dramatic tone throughout the play. Without a strong script and meaningful character development, players are forced to rely on exaggerated gestures and movement to get their points across. Perhaps overemphasizing Merlyn's innocence, James Patterson, as the title character, remains wideeyed and blank-faced during most of the play. David Travis as Theloc, Merlyn's Obi-Wan Kenobi-like guru, manages to make the best of the show's most preposterous fortune-cookie-like lines. Sometimes, however, Travis, in an effort to maintain some sort of credibility for his character, acts too seriously...
While the network joins people and ideas from all over the world, the individual using its resources is completely alone. In the basement of the Science Center, blank faces stare for hours into the computer screens. Occasionally, a humorous message forces a chuckle from one of the terminals, an oasis of human emotion amid a desert of android typists...