Word: clues
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many lapses of concentration, especially defensively," Delaney Smith said. "We would do some really nice things and then not have a clue. Our job now is to get over this discouragement and beat Penn tonight...
...data that were nonoperational--that neither controllers nor crew could have done anything about--were simply stored away in computers. Thus while controllers at Cape Canaveral and in Houston apparently noticed nothing abnormal on their consoles until telemetry from Challenger abruptly stopped, the stored data could contain the clue that the space agency is seeking. Though NASA experts repeatedly objected to all public guessing about what caused the explosion --all employees of the agency were ordered not to speculate--it was virtually impossible to prevent people from doing just that. But the space agency promptly took issue with some...
...exercise equipment. Almost half the mishaps occurred at home. In addition to the danger of injury, there is the risk of wasting money on unneeded glitz or extras. Women, in particular, tend to be unfamiliar with exercise devices. "If I say dipping station to women, they haven't a clue as to what that is," says Marilyn Mitchell, a fitness specialist in the Washington area. (It is a set of parallel bars used to build upper-body strength.) Sometimes their decisions seem dictated more by decor than duty. "Women want to know how many colors the machines come in," notes...
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...movie ever to be based on a board game. It is certainly the first one to go into the theaters with three different endings. Good news for the makers of some future edition of Trivial Pursuit. The bad news for everyone else is that the colorfully named characters from Clue --Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock et al.--remain flat enough to be stored in a box, and that all three endings are unpersuasive. (If choose you must, opt for Ending C.) Writer-Director Jonathan Lynn apparently felt so obliged to maintain the game's conventions, in which players...