Word: eruptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the catapult is constructed, the next bonus for those assigned to the Quad should be a Quad Beverage Geyser. This would be an enormous underground beverage reservoir underneath the grass of the Quad, which once every week would erupt like Old Faithful. Quadlings could then gather in front of their dorms with buckets and cups and catch the beverage-of-the-week as it falls. Certain landscaping difficulties could result--Jim Beam Week would probably kill all the grass, and Orange Tang week would leave a stain that could be seen from space--but these are minor difficulties that...
...younger kids like playing the games, but they remember how to talk about violence and peace. The older kids might think it's a bit corny in the beginning. But now when arguments erupt, they know how to discipline themselves...
...European Union approved "in principle" Boeing's $15 billion megamerger with McDonnell Douglas after the aircraft manufacturer made key concessions on exclusive supply contracts and the sharing of aviation technologies. The preliminary agreement temporarily averts a trade war between the United States and the EU which threatened to erupt if the consortium vetoed the Boeing-McDonnell arrangement. To secure EU approval, Boeing offered to terminate agreements which made Boeing the sole supplier of jets to several U.S. airline, and promised to grant competitors access to certain aviation technologies. Those concessions should assuage European fears for Boeing's last major competitor...
...Smith he is just a whisper away from hysteria; moral innocence confronted with political corruption must erupt violently. In real life he gave up his career to join the Army Air Corps, distinguishing himself on bomber runs. But those clear eyes, as blue as the skies patrolled by the Strategic Air Command, saw terrible things. He returned to movies with It's a Wonderful Life, where George Bailey does good deeds in a small town that his ambitions were too big for; he is a hero because, with reluctant grace, he made the noble compromise...
...victim of an unbelieving era? Perhaps, but if so, unbelief is selective. Lynn Garrett, religion editor at Publishers Weekly, who has tracked the recent popular vogues for angels and miracles, observes that there is almost no corresponding interest in the place where angels live and from which miracles erupt into our lives. Perhaps the biblical heaven is too big to be marketable. Perhaps it is a victim of its own, centuries-long hype: so much has been claimed for it, much of it contradictory, that our literal-minded age overloads and calls the whole thing a wash. Or perhaps America...