Word: grounded
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Thompson has said he is not interested in going over the Whitewater ground laboriously covered by the past two Congresses. But the Democratic Party's dubious fund-raising practices are fertile territory for someone whose zeal for campaign-finance reform has not endeared him to his colleagues. Pressure for a full-blown congressional investigation intensified last week when Attorney General Janet Reno rejected requests for an independent counsel. And Thompson has suggested that there still may be questions worth raising about how the White House handled the firing of its travel office or how it gathered FBI files on prominent...
...year-old sophomore, is a case in point. Last year he was smoking up to five times a day, and his grades were suffering. But it wasn't until his scoutmaster caught him getting high on a Boy Scout outing that his parents found out. Their reaction was to ground him for the summer. The punishment gave him a chance to read Dante's Divine Comedy and some Shakespeare but did nothing to change his attitude; his friends came over to his place to get high...
Last week, two days before a court-ordered deadline, the EPA made its move. In a decision that EPA chief Carol Browner calls one of the most important of her career, the agency proposed tough new standards on both particulates and ground-level ozone, a major component of smog. The standards will save 20,000 lives a year, according to the EPA. Under the new rules, however, dozens of cities that meet the requirements of the current Clean-Air Act would suddenly fall out of compliance...
...Harvard community withstood its first touch of Old Man Winter yesterday as a midday storm dumped two inches of wet, slushy snow on the ground...
...like any other, with a single step. For NASA scientists, that first step was delayed again early Tuesday morning as Pathfinder's scheduled launch was scrubbed again for the second time in as many days. The weather, Monday's culprit, was near-perfect; this time a computer on the ground was to blame, failing with just over a minute remaining in the countdown. A backup computer also would not work, leading officials to suspect a software problem. NASA scientists say they must launch the $196M Pathfinder in December in order to intercept Mars' orbit or wait two years for another...