Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lewis will divide Epps' responsibilities among three associate deans of the College, Thomas A. Dingman '67, Georgene B. Herschbach and a yet-to-be-hired individual. Such a decision--to eliminate the presence of one administrator with official responsibility for student concerns--seems to us to be a catastrophic blow to student interests on this campus...
...bringing back a version of the '50s show You Asked for It, only instead of viewers asking to see the vault at Fort Knox, they'll be treated to five-legged pigs and lady sumo wrestlers. Nelson's next project is Crash Test, in which producers pick things to blow up. (The first two ideas: exploding 1,000 parking meters and throwing a Corvette off a building.) Meanwhile, Lachman is working on a show in which he'll sink a ship and tape it going down in real time. By then, with luck, we'll all be watching cable...
...conservative majority of the court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the language and history of the federal law governing the census cannot be interpreted to permit statistical adjustments. "The clear arithmetic of the decision," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley, "is that it will be a blow to Democratic interests...
...both sides to unanimity by Friday afternoon: the trial will start this Thursday, with a week or so of arguments and questions from each side, and no witness will appear unless a majority of the Senators agree to call him--or her. In preserving Senate comity, they dealt a blow to both sides: to Henry Hyde and the House managers, who had been bucking all week at the idea that they might not be able to prosecute their case down to the last cigar, and to the White House, which was still holding out for a day pass...
Anytime now, if they haven't already, they are going to blow up all over the charts. I don't promise, but I hope. Until then, wait for their movie: they will soon be on the big screen, in Glenn Ballard's forthcoming Clubland. Oh yes, Dolby Surroundsound...