Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Connerly calls this a "self-correcting policy" that sends black undergraduates to colleges where they can best compete. But his point has been lost in the angry din being raised around the country. "We're seeing a radical revival of apartheid," thundered Jesse Jackson, who is working hard to fuel a backlash against Connerly's crusade, a backlash that is also being encouraged by Bill Clinton...
...Andrea Gail, a 72-ft. offshore commercial swordfish boat, sank with its crew of six men in the monstrous confusion of air and water that resulted. A small sailboat, the Satori, also sank, though its crew was saved, and so did a powerful rescue helicopter that ran out of fuel, ditched and lost one crewman...
...turns out; enough to fuel the writing of a book. The result is a quirky, relaxed account, as much family journal as boat biography. Coomer, who's a novelist (Kentucky Love, The Loop), has a sure way with words, as when he tells how, a new-hatched captain, he held Yonder's "taut wet anchor line in my hand as if it were the reins to the planet...
...Online. "It was designed for 60,000 hours. A new airplane wouldn't have been torn apart (by a falling beam)." According to the draft report, that's exactly what happened: A hatch cover blew off one of the six-foot beams that divide the plane's cavernous center fuel tank into smaller compartments, sending another beam crashing forward and forcing a third beam and the wall it held up into the cargo hold. That cut the electrical power to the plane, weakening the fuselage of the old jet. "The news that the cause was possibly mechanical failure...
...they don't, people just aren't going to use some of these technologies." A new software the two companies will jointly produce should allow users to choose which information websites can learn about them. But since both Netscape and Microsoft are counting on advertising revenue to fuel their growth, putting them in charge of your privacy could be a Faustian bargain indeed...