Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After that meet, Harvard will face Penn and Cornell in dual meets, but those teams are not of the Crimson's caliber, and, barring disaster, should not pose serious threats. Thus, if Harvard beats Princeton, it is virtually ensured of being at least the Ivy co-champion.
TRABZON, TURKEY: Chechen rebels widened their war for independence, hijacking a Turkish ferry loaded with Russians in the Turkish Black Sea port of Trabzon and taking 30 Russians hostage in their capital, Grozny, even as hostage-takers under withering Russian assault in Pervomayskaya, Dagestan, vowed to fight to the death...
But there is also a small chance that the technology that allows people like Getty to receive tissues from animals could someday unleash a medical disaster. The danger is that patients could receive a previously unknown microbe along with their transplants. When viruses or bacteria have made the jump from...
CAPE CANAVERAL: "This was practically a flawless launch," reports TIME's Jerry Hannifin from the Kennedy Space Center, where the shuttle Endeavor hurtled into space early Thursday. "The only glitch was that it was a few minutes late while some extra safety checking was done. NASA took particular care and...
The Medicaid debate may come down to two choices. The two parties can remove the need for Medicaid savings this deep by dropping their tax cuts or putting back into the negotiations the half of the budget they've taken off the table: defense and Social Security and other entitlements...