Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tape recording of the various instruments in the climate orchestra, ranging from El Nino's high-frequency violin to the deeper cello- and basslike tones struck by longer-term cycles. By studying the hidden rhythms in these signals, scientists may finally be able to see how the parts fit together, sometimes harmonizing, sometimes clashing...
...mandating her sentence and therapy during a hearing, the court treated her as a sex offender. But she didn't fit the pattern. The typical sex offender is a predator who becomes active in his late teens and strikes victim after victim. LeTourneau's record was clean. Moore and others who examined LeTourneau believed she committed a sex crime because of delusions occasioned by the illness--a distinction with important implications for her therapy. It was late fall before LeTourneau's doctors were able to persuade her jailers to give her a drug called Depakote, to which...
...reasons that I don't buy from catalogs is that I like to try stuff on, and if the clothes that I ordered don't fit, it's such a pain to return them," Bass says. "Plus, with the plethora of stores in the Square, who needs catalogs...
...represent Asian Americans to the general population, certain individuals attempt to present the authentic Asian American identity to the racial group itself. Oftentimes, this identity has meant Chinese or Japanese, male, heterosexual and middle class. Because individuals matching this profile have traditionally dominated our community, APAs who don't fit so well have too often been asked to stand aside, to let their concerns be subsumed by the greater cause of group solidarity. Simply put, many APA activists have prioritized race over oppressions of gender, class, and sexuality, effectively silencing those who might question the terms of this "racial solidarity...
...downhill last Saturday at Are, Sweden, when she crashed at about 75 m.p.h. and was knocked briefly unconscious. Afterward, coach Herwig Demschar proclaimed it "just a normal crash" and said the worst damage was to one of Street's favorite skis. Her father, Ron Street, predicted she would be fit for Nagano, despite a bad headache at the moment: "This will just make it more interesting...