Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...B.T.U.s. That's British thermal units." During the past year, pupils in the Clark City classes boosted their reading-skill level by 14 months, compared with the eight-month increase recorded by other students. In turn, the Commonwealth Edison volunteers have learned firsthand about the concerns of their inner-city customers. Says Division Vice President Robert Manning: "It's turned out to be a kind of Dale Carnegie course for our people...
Before Edmund Halley (pronounced Hal-ee) identified them in 1705 as periodic visitors to the inner solar system, comets were widely viewed as omens of disaster. Astronomers now look upon them as primordial chunks of matter that offer clues to the solar system's formation. The budget-conscious U.S. has bowed out of the race to intercept Halley's comet with a robot spacecraft, thus leaving the field to the Soviets, Western Europeans and Japanese. But NASA plans a relatively cheap ($2 million) alternative: diverting an unmanned ship already in orbit for an inspection of a comet called...
Bambi Taylor continued to play a strong inner forward The most powerful hitter on the Crimson squad. Taylor hustled for six second-half shots on goal...
...presence onstage of a six-man band. The musicians punctuate Haider's crises, conflicts and decisive indecision with marching songs, waltzes, jazz tunes and snatches of opera. These are the intravenous tranquilizers with which Haider suppresses the torment of truth. Good is a trip through the inner space of a troubled mind; just as others hear voices, Haider hears ironic and beguiling music...
Nobody from Dartmouth noticed when the orange-haired Harvard inner forward slipped to the other side of the goal and into the Big Green's goal mouth...