Word: gales
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...essential to presidential success. "I claim not to have controlled events," Abraham Lincoln wrote, "but confess plainly that events have controlled me." As the sailor President Franklin D. Roosevelt understood, only rarely does a fair wind blow squarely at the President's back. More typical is the gale blowing from dead ahead or the deceptively strong crosswind. Sometimes the best that one can do is inch forward at an angle while struggling to avoid running aground...
...will return home in months or years. Or ever. On this and the following pages, TIME publishes the first photographs to appear in the U.S. of the ruined nuclear plant, the cleanup operation and the surrounding countryside. One of the few Americans who have seen Pripyat is Dr. Robert Gale, a bone- marrow specialist who helped Soviet doctors cope with the Chernobyl disaster, which so far has cost 26 lives. ''It's a very dramatic thing to see a partially destroyed nuclear power plant,'' Gale told reporters after taking a helicopter tour of the scene. ''The damage itself doesn...
...farmhouse in Kempton that had been built by one of Obama's great-uncles (who had been a member of the Indiana legislature), on land that had once been bought by his great-great-great-great grandfather, had to be canceled after the weather turned frigid and gale-force gusts defeated the campaign's efforts to set up tables. Instead, the Obama family had to settle for an uncomfortably chilly walk around the property...
...voracious consumer of puzzles and a brilliant mathematician, University of California professor David Gale was so passionate about math that he dreamed of creating an interactive museum dedicated to the subject. But he is best known for the matching algorithm he created with colleague Lloyd Shapley that was first applied to romantic pairs: an elegant method to determine couples in which both partners prefer each other to other members of a group. Among several applications, the algorithm has since been used to match students to high schools and helped establish the protocol still used to assign new doctors to hospital...
Things might have been different if the harsh, hot Santa Ana had kept blowing at gale force, because the inferno came close to pushing Schwarzenegger's system to the breaking point. Last May, a Los Angeles Times investigation found a number of unfilled gaps in the state's firefighting capacity, despite the recommendations of a blue-ribbon commission set up in the wake of disastrous fires in 2003. Big-ticket items, like more manpower and trucks, new communications systems and a modern fleet of water-dumping helicopters and planes, went unfunded by the legislature and the Schwarzenegger administration...