Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Designing the new parachute was Popov's greatest challenge. Hang gliders weigh only 500 lbs., even if you include the pilot. A small Cessna, on the other hand, weighs more than 1,700 lbs., and a standard parachute big enough to float such a craft safely to the ground would...
Magaziner was not popular among health-care pros in Washington; he dismissed them -- often to their faces -- as too isolated to be part of the solution. Inside the campaign too there were private worries about Magaziner's math. After he had finished his work on the book, the grumbling turned...
United, Kasparov and Short mounted a far more powerful counterforce to FIDE than the solitary Fischer had ever managed. They became the founding -- and only -- members of the Professional Chess Association ( P.C.A.) and began entertaining bids for their runaway world championship match. The Times of London, owned by Rupert Murdoch...
Segal visited PBH last month, Johnson said. "He was very impressed by what he saw," Johnson said. "He has talked about the possibility of including undergraduates in the program but has not figured out how to do it."
Writer Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) and director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II) must have figured: If we're gonna get an R, then dammit, let's make an R. For a while, True Romance had the restrictive NC-17 rating, and there's still enough carnage in...