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Word: firsts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...First, what the heck goes in it? According to Times editor Jack Rosenthal, the goal of the project was "not to encapsulate all of civilization, but to try to offer our progeny a snapshot of what life was like back when three zeros clicked into place for the third millennium...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: All of Harvard, In a Time Capsule | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

...truly ironic because our four previous opponents all had field-goal percentage defenses under 40 percent," Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan said. "This was the first team we played that had a field-goal percentage defense over 40 percent and they guarded us the toughest of anybody...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bad Breaks and Bad News at B.U. | 12/8/1999 | See Source »

...really, George, call me Steve.... During their first real debate Monday night in Phoenix, the GOP presidential hopefuls came across like salesmen at a convention competing for their boss's attention but avoiding any overt aggression. In broad agreement on issues of taxes and foreign policy, they even kept their criticisms of one another plausibly constructive, and that left the audience once again to make their choice on the basis of style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call This a Debate? GOP Hopefuls Have a Love-In | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...more than a little worried. While this is hardly the first or even the most expensive ship ever to be lost around the Red Planet (that would be the billion-dollar Mars Observer, lost en route in 1993 and now presumably doing its observing outside the Oort cloud), NASA officials have to be concerned by the timing of these high-profile failures. Tuesday, the agency announced it would reevaluate the Mars program, a move that could delay or even abort NASA's ambitious plans to send a lander and an orbiter to Mars every 26 months for the next decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Planet, Red Faces | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

...course lessons get learned only one way around here, and it's not the easy way. First, you march to a dingy compound in the woods called NBC -- nuclear, biological, chemical - and you get to spend about 20 minutes flopping around in a sand pit to practice shielding your genitals from a nuclear blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ah, the Smell of Tear Gas in the Morning... | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

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