Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was Dole last week, running more or less for Governor of California. Energetic, pugnacious, he hit the ground in Riverside and Glendale to cheer on the state ballot initiative that would ban affirmative action. With California handling about half the nation's illegal aliens, he slammed Clinton for making changes in the new immigration law to bar states from denying medical assistance to illegals with aids. Dole promised more border guards along the highway that runs south from San Diego into Tijuana. If he didn't really feel inspired, he wasn't half bad at pretending...
...crowds turning out for Dole were sparse. But for comfort he has in-house poll numbers that show him continuing to gain ground in California. So is this one last grab for the gold ring, as his campaign insists? Or is it a soberly calculated admission of defeat--and a final effort on behalf of the G.O.P. by a man who has devoted his life to his party? In a panic over the prospect of losing the Republican Congress, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour and House Speaker Newt Gingrich have been pushing Dole toward California, where 52 House seats...
...dinosaurs ruled the earth, Quetzalcoatlus and its cousins dominated the skies. Yet ever since their fossils were first discovered in the 1700s and mistaken for strange marine creatures or bats, pterosaurs--literally, winged lizards--have remained a perplexing enigma. Did these extraordinary beasts take off by running on the ground or by dropping from a tree? Did they energetically flap their wings or deploy them as passive sails? Did they, like seabirds, nurture their young in large colonies, or did they lead a solitary life...
...University of Colorado at Denver, strongly support the latter conclusion. The pattern of these footprints, which range in size from 1 in. to 5 in., suggests that pterosaurs held their bodies in a semierect position, with their long wings folded back so that their clawlike fingers gripped the ground...
...site for a second skinlike membrane that stretched between the animals' hind limbs. "Why else would the fifth toe have been so elongated?" he asks. Padian responds that Unwin's membrane does not make anatomical sense: among other things, it would have hampered pterosaurs' ability to move on the ground...