Word: hairbreadth
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...reduced Don Rafael to largely impotent rage. And just when he was on the brink of stealing all the gold in the state and setting himself up as ruler of an independent empire. Director Martin Campbell doesn't quite know when to stop. At some point the number of hairbreadth assaults and escapes approaches the tiresome. But they're all well choreographed, and since the good-natured conviction of all concerned with Zorro never flags, we are carried blithely along on their journey...
...come close to Earth's orbit. Yet only 200 or so of these have thus far been identified and tracked. Just last year, a previously unknown asteroid some 1,600 ft. across was spotted four days before it whipped by Earth, missing us by only 280,000 miles--a hairbreadth by astronomical standards. Had it struck Earth, scientists say, the explosion would have been in the 3,000-to-12,000-megaton range, roughly equivalent to the explosive power of all the world's nuclear weapons going off at once...
Well, not quite. Early last week, four days after Spahr spotted it, his celestial interloper whizzed by Earth, missing the planet by 280,000 miles--a hairbreadth in astronomical terms. Perhaps a third of a mile across, it was the largest object ever observed to pass that close to Earth...
...could wait until the voting was over and the potshots resumed. More than a month of debate and horse trading, cajoling and drafting budget charts on the backs of envelopes resulted in the hairbreadth defeat of the balanced-budget amendment, a centerpiece of the "Contract with America." It was the first reality check for Republicans since they barreled into Washington in January. Certainly it will complicate the job of congressional G.O.P. leaders, who are still promising to make the $1.2 trillion in cuts necessary to balance the budget by the year 2002, the deadline in the amendment. The loss...
...talks, walks, looks and acts like the rest of middle-class America. By all accounts she was a model mother no different from others. What fine line was crossed the night she let her car roll into that lake? How unsettling to think that we live our lives a hairbreadth away from such acts...