Word: hailstorm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late '90s have seen a veritable hailstorm of reunion acts, from the Eagles to Fleetwood Mac. While those bands chose to release compilation albums of their best hits in conjunction with their respective reunion tours, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have once again refused to take the safe path, choosing instead to release this collection of new material...
...officer requests our IDs. Hoping to buy my companions some time, I hand over mine first. In the middle of the exchange, Aaron has a brainstorm. He decides to overwhelm the inspector with a hailstorm of paperwork. He tosses out his driver's license, his school ID, his credit cards, even his USTA membership card from the 10th grade. Josh follows suit, emptying his wallet on the unsuspecting bouncer. The line begins to back up. People start shouting. The bouncer panics. He shoves all of our IDs back at us and slaps on entry-bands...
...officer requests our IDs. Hoping to buy my companions some time, I hand over mine first. In the middle of the exchange, Aaron has a brainstorm. He decides to overwhelm the inspector with a hailstorm of paperwork. He tosses out his driver's license, his school ID, his credit cards, even his USTA membership card from the 10th grade. Josh follows suit, emptying his wallet on the unsuspecting bouncer. The line begins to back up. People start shouting. The bouncer panics. He shoves all of our IDs back at us and slaps on entry-bands...
Despite the somewhat predictable plot, Affleck and Bullock make a cute, if not slightly mismatched, couple. Their natural chemistry may even leave some wishing for a few more catastrophes. However, while watching Forces of Nature, one has to question the odds of a plane crash, hailstorm, fire and hurricane all happening to two people within the span of 48 hours. Not to mention being wrongfully picked up by the police as accessories to the burglary of a car and for possession of narcotics...
...problem: To fly, or not to fly? Everybody knows that air traffic controllers are helpless without their computers up and running; everybody also knows that when January 1, 2000 arrives, computers across the country could start going down like rosebuds in a hailstorm. In congressional hearings early last year, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) roundly criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for its lack of progress towards a Y2K solution. To address the problem, the FAA and the OMB worked together to lay out an aggressive timetable...