Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Relax. This was an Olympics security drill. "It was successful as a learning experience," says MARTA's Laura Gillig. Also planned: scenarios with chemical-bomb explosions--with fewer theoretical casualties, officials hope...
...anti-Lamar ad on the air until Thursday night--too late for anyone to see it before the all-important debate, but soon enough for Alexander to attack him for running it. "Lamar has got the three-day luxury of movement," complained a Dole official. "Part of this drill is moving quickly, and we didn...
Passing an electrical current through teeth may help dentists detect tiny pores that are the early sign of cavities. The tiny jolt, though it sounds shocking, could spare patients the drill. A special sealant may then halt the decay...
...hurdle drill that junior pentathlete and women's track co-captain Ailey Penningroth had run countless times before...
...comic exasperation with a world of slow learners, he takes teacher Glenn Holland through three decades of Americana, from Vietnam to 1995. Holland has a wife (Glenne Headly), a deaf son and, it turns out, a vocation for helping the young understand themselves through music. He becomes their drill sergeant, father confessor, patron saint. As the years pass, his students follow their stars while he, a frustrated composer, pours his ambition into them. It's the ambitious teacher's tragedy: your kids move on, you stay...