Word: bowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Smithsonian Institution today said it would delete controversial portions of a plannedexhibit featuring the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, in a bow to pressure from outraged WWII veterans groups and their supporters in Congress. "We made an error," said Smithsonian Secretary Michael Heyman. The 100,000 square-foot exhibit revised downward the official estimate of the number of American lives saved by the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to 63,000, from several hundred thousand. In addition, it focused on pictures and narrative about the Japanese who suffered and died. Rep. Peter...
...Italian finalist, Gardini, in the last Cup, it was because he built four boats only to settle on the one with the sleekest hull, stiffest mast and lightest sails made from a revolutionary carbon fiber/polymer blend. As Whitbread veteran Merritt Carey, one of the two self-described "bow chicks" on the women's team, says, "Even idiots sailing a fast boat every day can do a pretty good...
...Little Women, when she had enough clout to jump-start the project and enough savvy to help select the luminous young cast, she could play a very convincing big sister to her screen sibs. She kept the young actresses amused on the Vancouver set with games like Take a Bow. For example: "Bow like the fading star who knows she's going to be replaced next week...
...years, the Crimson has laced up talented players, only to see them bow at the prospect of unfulfilled promise. Last year's squad was a good example; expected to vie for top honors in the league, it finished a measly 7-19, its worst record since the 1983-84 season. Further evidence has been the squad's poor performance at invitationals; before this weekend, it hadn't won a tournament since...
...least four straight years of tuition increases no faster than the rate of inflation -- a potential slap at private and state universities whch have complained that they'd go belly-up if they took such a step. "It's going to be a shot across the fiscal management bow of every other university in the country," says McWhirter, who spoke to sources close to the school's board. The reason Michigan State took the initiative, McWhirter says, is that university President Peter McPherson -- a former Reagan-Bush deputy Treasury secretary -- came from the world of finance and "has been...