Word: inch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works, Meyer repeats under his breath, over and over, "No biting, no biting, no biting..." The object of his mantra gapes below us--a foot-wide crescent studded with hundreds of razor-sharp, serrated, half-inch-long triangular teeth. This fish is only half-grown--an adult tiger shark can surpass 14 ft. in length--but it could easily take off a hand or an arm, or a chunk of torso you wouldn't want to try and live without...
...years ago. It is at this point that I notice that the man to my left and the woman across from me have enormous track marks on their arms, the kind you get from shooting up. In fact, the woman across from me is so scarred that every inch of exposed skin is mottled, indicating she also has some sort of underlying medical condition. I hadn't been looking because in N.Y. you don't look. But right now I am trying to recover my bearings and so I am looking. I have not seen a look like...
...their troubled station, Russian commentators candidly admitted that the damaged part of the station could be a Pandora's box. Rammed by another Progress on June 25, Mir's Spektr science module suffered a foot-long tear in one of its sail-like solar panels and an inch-wide breach in its hull, depressurizing the interior. To keep the rest of Mir's precious atmosphere from spilling as well, the crew hurriedly sealed off Spektr, site of Foale's racks of experiments and his living quarters--disconnecting the cables from solar panels that provide nearly 40% of Mir's power...
...year bid that Consol couldn't match. With coal prices still on a downward trend that began 19 years ago, fuel contracts of that length are all but unprecedented. But Mettiki vice president for operations Tom Wynne insists there was nothing nefarious about this. "We invested every inch of our effort for two years into getting this contract," he says. "We did our homework...
...arteries. On my second night in Budapest, I digested a traditional Hungarian meal of cabbage stuffed with meat accompanied by a small black sausage, a slice of pork and a hunk of fat from an undetermined animal. The entire dish was sitting in deep red oil half-an-inch thick, and the cabbage was topped with sour cream...