Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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James A. Hogue, a Harvard Extension School student and casual employee of the Mineralogical Museum, was arrested on May 10, 1993, for stealing nearly $100,000 in precious gems, minerals and other property from that museum...
...last movement of the Sibelius has been described as a "Polonaise for polar bears," but those seeking robust playing should look elsewhere. Rather than the incessant, almost primitive drive of Heifetz or even Oistrakh, one finds a laid-back and almost casual interpretation here, with Midori deferring almost immediately. Is she willing to take on the orchestra in a head-to-head battle? Has she forgotten that the term concerto translates more or less as "a contest...
...controversy over a defect in Intel Corp.'s popular Pentium microchip heated up as scientists and engineers accused the company of being too casual in its response to the problem. According to a Nov. 7 article in the Electrical Engineering Times, the flaw in the chip can cause computers to reach incorrect answers in complex division problems approximately once in every 37 billion calculations. Intel discovered the defect last summer, and has since corrected it, but it is offering free replacement chips only to customers with provably esoteric needs. "The chip is fine," said a company spokesman. "Statistically, the average...
...characterize others negatively, they do so without resorting to language that inadvertiantly denigrates an entire group of people. Through such reckless descriptions, outdated prejudices receive a voice perhaps more powerful than any impassioned diatribe, evoking the most fertile attitude in which prejudice can take root: that of thoughtless or casual acceptance of simplistic, injurious categorizations. Julia...
...here. It is noble of Darren to pick a non-American sports event, it shows his openmindedness towards all sports. But how can a game be honored with such lofty recognition when it is only memorable because of the goal differential tie-breaker system that was in existence? Any casual spectator would probably have not even understood the importance of the second goal...