Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mind. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson bets he'll say yes. "Goldin has been under the gun before," says Thompson. "If he hasn't changed his criteria ? that it's reasonably safe and there's measurable benefit ? Wolf will go as planned." At the very least, Atlantis will drop off a replacement computer, patches for holes, and pick up Michael Foale after his hair-raising four-and-a-half-month stay. Will Wolf replace him, or will Mir be Yankee-free? Tune in Thursday to find...
Enter Apple and its revolutionary eMate 3000. On the outside, the eMate looks like a notebook from the 23rd century, with a striking translucent-green case and built-in handle. The case, built out of ABS plastic, is designed to survive a drop onto a concrete floor from six feet-while running...
Despite the implied limit on nominees for the Marshall scholarship, which Bohlmann says is unofficially 30, and the approximately 10 percent drop in Harvard nominations since the 1995 memo, the eight Marshall scholarships won by Harvard students last year was an all-time national record. Seven Rhodes scholarships were awarded to Harvard seniors last year...
...blew town Aug. 15 for a one-week remote-island getaway, you could have concluded upon returning that you hadn't missed a thing on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average was at 7942 when you departed; 7894 when you reappeared, a pimple of a drop. But you would have been wrong--and missed the perverse pleasure of watching hordes of young traders sweating through their custom-made threads while the market extended and retracted like a bungee jumper flung off the George Washington Bridge...
...most obvious (mis)identity, Mariah as Butterfly. Presumably, the title of the album was meant to connote a metamorphosis, an emergence of maturity from a long period of gestation and development. Sorry, dame. No dice. Mariah Carey needs to follow some of her funkier instincts and drop the damsel-in-distress pose; no one wants another Celine Dion. In the meantime, Mariah needs to slow down, grow up, branch out and create some sturdier, more lasting work. This one ought to be called Mayfly.Photo courtesy of Sony Records...