Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown University must restore its women's gymnastics and volleyball teams, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Court of Boston ruled Friday...
...railway brakeman. He also made a friend, nicknamed College, whose family in Maine welcomed Jonathan after their son's death. Jonathan traveled the country in a vain search for his father -- someone to give him an anchor and a bloodline. In time he became a circuit rider and a pioneer farmer. He married and sired children. He neither forgot nor forgave the past. The novel's climax is a fatal, vengeful encounter with his boyhood nemesis, Alvah Stoke's son George, who had become a U.S. Senator...
...space shuttle Discovery putting on a spectacular light show on its way into orbit for eight days of atmospheric research. The successful -- at last! -- launch was a big relief for NASA. Two days earlier, Discovery's countdown was halted 11 seconds before lift-off because of a faulty computer circuit. Two weeks before that miscue, a mission by sister shuttle Columbia was scrubbed just three seconds before launch, after a valve got stuck. Columbia is still sitting on the ground at Cape Canaveral...
...building a $1.5 billion reactor to produce electricity. The device would be partly fueled from Moscow's huge stockpile of scrapped nuclear warheads. But some officers at a Moscow air-defense unit came up with their own way to enhance disarmament: they were stealing gold and platinum from the circuit boards of missiles and selling it. A captain and two junior sergeants netted $28,000 worth of precious metals before being arrested...
...Gunn's work was no secret in the circuit he traveled -- a pine-forested area radiating north, east and west from the Florida panhandle -- and it made him both notorious and revered. Antiabortion groups harassed him, listing his itinerary, phone numbers and addresses and issuing WANTED posters bearing his name or photograph or both. One of them concluded, "To defenseless unborn babies, Gunn is heavily armed and very dangerous...