Word: directed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became $53,000. The finance company then sold the mortgage to Hempstead Bank. It is now held by Fleet Bank, which contends it has no responsibility for any fraud that was committed before it purchased the contract. The house looks as if it took a direct hit from a bomb, Tony has disappeared, and his company is out of business. Warren Singleton has been disabled by two strokes, and his wife, at 71, has had to take a job as a 24-hour nurse and caretaker for a still older woman in order to keep up the mortgage payments...
...education wars. This school year, nearly half of all American elementary students are expected to learn math the way children do at Fernangeles Elementary: not in neat rows of desks, repeating times tables and memorizing theorems, but through trial-and-error problem solving, often in groups with little direct instruction and almost always with a calculator nearby. Advocates call it "interactive" or "inventive" math and insist that it sets American schoolchildren on the way to becoming "mathematically powerful...
...offensive put 31,000 NATO peacekeepers clearly in direct opposition to Serb wartime leaders still in command of thousands of police officers as well as the Serbian economy. It split the Bosnian Serb sector into two regions: one controlled by Karadzic and the other by his official successor, President Biljana Plavsic...
Unlike Apple, Pixar is expanding, having gone from 175 people to 375 this year alone. The original Richmond studio now has an outpost working busily on a direct-to-video sequel to Toy Story, and there's a mysterious third major project in the works too. Jobs has plans for a new studio, to sprawl on 16 acres in industrial Emeryville, near Berkeley. Interior plans have been carefully drawn--before the exterior--to ensure a cross-pollination of ideas. And of course, he says, all the offices will be the same size...
...major weather changes around the globe, such as shifts in the position of the jet streams. These are the high-altitude winds that serve as weather "tracks" in both the northern and southern hemispheres. A dip in the northern hemisphere's jet stream, for instance, can be expected to direct moisture-laden storms on a more southerly route over the U.S., while a nudge in the opposite direction will result in snow and rain farther north. But figuring out exactly how a particular El Nino will affect North America is no easy matter because particular effects can be amplified...