Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ezra says softball and hardball squash are very different games. Softball, which uses a softer ball on a wider court, is played internationally. Softball squash is "More like physical chess," Ezra says, adding that it is a more tactical game and therefore emphasizes endurance. "If you're fit for softball, you're fit for hardball," Ezra says, "But definitely not vice versa...
...although I've already read those books--and the toys have broken and the clothes no longer fit--I still have my autograph book my parents bought me for my first grade graduation...
...flatly refused to continue to pay the large deficits of the Museum--a situation not dissimilar to the present crisis--and the matter was resolved finally through the intervention of an Advisory Committee and President Pusey's agreement to refurbish the Museum's basement from University funds making it fit for research collections, and to "rent" the upper floors of the Museum building to the Center for International Affairs for a period of five years. In fact, the CFIA remained twenty-five years...
...Core is to change. Some professors treat Core courses as their private fiefs and use them for personal glorification and processes of indoctrination. These people, hopefully few in number, will be reluctant to be the equals of their departmental colleagues again. Furthermore, some departments might not feel that they fit into one or more of the ten Core areas. In these cases, precedent could be the deciding factor. If a History of Science professor has taught a Science B before, let similar History of Science courses count for Science...
Because the repairs are so numerous and so intricate -- the 600-lb., telephone booth-size compartment containing Hubble's corrective lenses has to fit into an opening with less than an inch to spare -- the entire mission has + been choreographed more precisely than a Balanchine ballet. Unlike last year's rescue of Intelsat-6, in which astronauts literally grabbed the satellite when the shuttle's robot arm couldn't grasp it, the Hubble repairs require more agility than physical strength. Patience and caution are also crucial to the mission's success. Says astronaut Kathryn Thornton, who will install the planetary...