Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, the Administration's inept handling of its plan to cut back state and local income tax deductions two weeks ago sped the talks' collapse. At one point, both sides were close to pulling off what Darman calls "a no fingerprints" budget, in which each party simultaneously put forth complete budget plans. By doing so, says one aide, "no party could take advantage of the other." But the immaculate conception failed when Republican lawmakers disclosed the White House idea to reporters. No sooner had the idea surfaced than even such Republican stalwarts as House whip Newt Gingrich and a host...
...about to offer -- and no Arab state would ever accept -- an Israeli nuclear umbrella over anyone else's head. As for Iran, even if it emerges from its medieval isolation, it will take a long time to regain enough strength to make Saddam think twice before he sends forth his tanks and bombers again...
Methods are eclectic at the Concordia villages, but real back-and-forth conversation is the first goal. Credit students learn their case endings and irregular verbs, but clowning around, even at the advanced level, keeps scholars fresh and interested. Students stage ridiculous dining-hall skits in their new languages and prove that you can't be self-conscious speaking Spanish while dressed like half an elephant. Everyone sings almost without stop: nonsense songs; protest songs; "rocken roll," as they say in Norway; and anthems celebrating a "world without walls," which has been the villages' global theme since the dismantling...
...riders upside down. There are coasters on which passengers ride standing up, others that run backward and still more featuring cars that are suspended below the tracks. At Houston's AstroWorld, the outrageous Ultra Twister hurls its riders headfirst from nine stories up, then barrel-rolls them back and forth through a winding tunnel of steel pipes...
NASA critics see a disturbing parallel between the shuttle and the proposed space station. The concept of the station evolved in part to provide a useful mission for the shuttle, which could be employed to carry crews back and forth to the orbiting base. But, say Ronald Brunner and Radford Byerly, researchers at the University of Colorado, the station was more important to the NASA hierarchy as a megaproject to stem the decline in the agency's manpower, which by 1981 had dropped to 22,000 from a high...