Word: calls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LONG AND PLEATED The folks at Gucci call this magnificent skirt navy, but it looks iron gray to us. Long, but not flowing, it's a uniform for women with real legs...
...failure occurred during an unusually complex maintenance procedure and was caused by a combination of two computer-software glitches and a bad judgment call. Those glitches resulted in the shutdown of one essential SOHO attitude-sensing gyroscope, a failure by a computer to recognize that the gyroscope was not operating, the unnecessary firing of SOHO's hydrazine-powered thrusters, and a mistake by controllers in switching off a gyroscope that was working properly. "Thrusters kept firing to null out a roll that was not happening," explains NASA's Michael Greenfield, co-chair of the investigation group...
...answer, more often than not, is nowhere. Across the U.S., average students like Brian Wennerstrum--a group researchers call "woodwork children" because of their tendency to fade into the classroom background--are suffering from an unofficial policy of neglect as public schools overlook students in the middle in favor of the bright stars or the learning disabled. The share of public-school budgets devoted to "regular education"--which almost two-thirds of students receive--plummeted from 80% in 1967 to less than 59% in 1996, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The trend has accelerated in the past decade. From...
...boxing, after all, which is nearly as dirty a sport as politics. If Tyson was allowed to fight despite a rape conviction, how long can the commission ban him for mere biting and carrying on? Just put him in the ring and let Marv Albert call the fight...
...that, many funds have paid a price. Weary of laggard returns, investors have been shifting billions of dollars to passive funds like the Vanguard Index 500, where they are assured of getting market-matching results (and lower fees). Now active managers are striking back, brandishing what I'll call the "big-bet" fund. By limiting the number of stocks in tow and generally holding on longer, these funds correct some of the faults that have driven money to the indexers...