Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope that we can find a middle ground, " Bahat said. "I really do hope...
...What we're told is that you don't want to be a parent and you don't want to be a friend, but if you can find some middle ground, that would be ideal," says Roland Davis, who is entering his first term as a proctor...
...defensive side of the ball, Harvard's 1996 season was a tale of two teams. The Crimson was almost impenetrable on the ground, ranking third in the nation in run defense. But since Harvard was so adept at stopping the running game, the team was susceptible to the pass, and several teams were able to exploit that weakness...
...material off the sun's searing (11,000[degrees]F) surface at speeds of millions of miles an hour. If these electrically charged particles happen to slam against Earth's atmosphere, they can imperil astronauts, push satellites out of orbit or fry their circuitry. If they hit the ground, they can turn compass needles topsy-turvy, knock out electrical-power systems and possibly change the planetary climate. No wonder scientists dream of one day being able to predict storms on the sun with all the accuracy of terrestrial weather forecasts...
MOSCOW: Maybe it's not all their fault. As the finger-pointing continues over June's collision between a cargo ship and Mir's Spektr module, a panel of top Russian space officials said that ground controllers must share some of the blame with cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin. That's something of a relief for the two spacemen, who earlier this week were fingered by Valery Ryumin, coordinator of the NASA-Mir mission, as the sole culprits in the crack...