Word: diving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole process can be relatively devastating. First-year friendships often take a nose-dive during house-picking season...
Opening up for Goatboy, Gary Powell, a fearsome five-member band, played a loose, raw set. At various points in the concert, members of the audience threw marshmellows and moshed uninhibitedly. Some even attempted to stage dive from a stage one step high--pathetic...
Authorities had no explanation for the crash, which occurred while the crew was practicing a maneuver called "low approach," in which the plane would fly close to but not touch the airstrip of nearby Evansville Regional Airport. Soon after takeoff, the plane went into a nose dive. William Capodagli was in a seminar room of the motel when the plane hit. "There was this incredible fireball bursting through our window," he says. "Where there should have been daylight was a big spinning ball of flame...
Then there is the problem that haunts all studies of "innate" sex differences: the possibility that the observed differences are really the result of lingering cultural factors. Girls' academic achievement, for example, as well as apparent aptitude and self-esteem, usually takes a nose dive at puberty. Unless nature has selected for smart girls and dumb women, something is going very wrong at about the middle-school level. Part of the problem may be that males, having been the dominant sex for a few millenniums, still tend to prefer females who make them feel stronger and smarter. Any girl...
Hard times are forcing some people to turn their back on the American Dream. In El Monte, Calif., Julio Toruno, the son of a Nicaraguan immigrant who prospered in Southern California after World War II, watched the revenues from his print shop nose-dive 20% last year. "I don't have the opportunities my father had," he says. Strapped by high housing costs, steep taxes and a declining income, Toruno and his wife recently bought land in Nicaragua and plan to move there in the spring...