Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generally, juvenile violence involving guns has actually been in decline since 1994. A downturn in the ultraviolent crack trade is one reason. Just two weeks ago, the National Center for Education Statistics, in a survey requested by President Clinton, found the incidence of serious crime in schools to be flat. In the past year, only 10% reported a rape, robbery or fight involving a weapon. But again, like crime generally, violent juvenile crime has stabilized at a rate that would have seemed very high 30 years ago, making the recent declines more like nicks in a high plateau...
There are other problems--the flat, earnest tone, the lack of any bad guys, the by-now familiar re-creation of Mission Control. Ultimately, though, From the Earth to the Moon suffers from a fundamental problem that its creators could do nothing about: the moon missions were a disappointment. They were thrilling while they took place, but that effect dissipated quickly in the 1970s, as NASA lost its way. Mankind's giant leap never seemed to take us beyond rocks and golf shots. Hanks may want to restore NASA's glory, but on the evidence so far, he hasn...
However, the dough balls in sugar water that parade around under the name "Kesar Rasgulla," are not worth the $2.95 addition to your bill. The cheese is finally present in the meal, but it is surrounded by a clinging, coy sweetness that leaves the taste flat in your mouth. Stick to the pudding, and you'll walk away a very satisfied customer...
Funny how we're all in the same boat. Even the Federal Government finds the perfect flat for a not-so-flat-rate each spring. Sure, it sounds like a great place to spend the year, settling into a spot Congress and the President have cleared from the debris of cut federal programs and eroded health care spending...
...collision. On the other was the description of crew members, whom colleagues and commanders praised for their flying skills and professionalism. And all the 35 EA-6B flyers interviewed said they had never heard of anyone flying too low, too fast or doing improper stunts--what Marine pilots call "flat hatting." It did strike some Pentagon officials as peculiar that there is a nickname for something the pilots say they never do and never heard of others doing. Officials also point out that another EA-6B squadron in Italy last year apparently videotaped some of its own flat hatting...