Word: fainted
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...official Presidential Election Commission rejected a petition from leading opposition candidate Ayman Nour, the runner-up with 7.3%, to throw out the ballot because of the alleged irregularities. After the vote U.S. President George W. Bush called President Mubarak to congratulate him, but a White House statement offered only faint praise, calling the poll "an important step toward holding fully free and fair competitive multiparty elections" and pointedly hoping that "the flaws that were visible in this election will be corrected for November's parliamentary election." In particular, a U.S. official told Time, the U.S. found fault with...
...deorbit engines at 8:15 a.m. E.T. when the ship was high over the Indian Ocean. Half an hour--and half a world--later, it hit the edges of the atmosphere just north of Hawaii at an altitude of about 400,000 ft. (122,000 m). Shortly after, a faint pink glow began to surround the ship, as atmospheric friction caused temperatures to rise to between 750[degrees]F and 3,000[degrees]F across various parts of the spacecraft's exposed underbelly...
...astronauts, busy monitoring their deceleration, temperature, hydraulics and more, didn't have much time to watch the light show play out, and by the time the glow brightened from faint pink to bright pink to plasma white, the ship had arced around the planet into thick air and daylight. "It all happens so smoothly ... you hardly notice it," says retired astronaut Henry Hartsfield Jr., who piloted Columbia in the early 1980s...
Just as I passed the subway turnstiles, on the way to the Lexington Ave. Express, I witnessed a well-dressed woman stumble and collapse on the floor of the long corridor that led to the trains. It was the heat, I was later informed, that caused her to faint, and she was fine afterwards...
...image was so faint that scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., checked to make sure it was not the result of a blemish on the camera lens or static distorting the telemetry. But it was real, a tiny circle that represented a previously undiscovered moon only 35 miles in diameter, orbiting 37,500 miles above the murky atmosphere of the planet Uranus...