Word: letdowns
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...proctors work so hard all year long. Then the students leave and there is a real letdown," says Mackay-Smith. "I think it's healthy and fun to look back on the year to laugh and cry about...
Veteran eclipse watchers who caught the show on July 11, 1991, declared it to be one of unsurpassed beauty. But from the standpoint of science, it was something of a letdown. High, thin clouds made a rare appearance above Mauna Kea that morning, interfering with the quality of data gathered through telescopes. "It was a miserable sky in the infrared," complained astronomer Robert MacQueen. Even more damaging to the infrared readings was the fine dust accumulating in the earth's atmosphere since the June explosion of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. "It's just heartbreaking that after being dormant...
Still, that breakthrough was an enormous letdown from the high hopes generated during the gulf war. Then, the conventional wisdom held that new alliances and new thinking might create an environment for making progress in settling the Arab-Israeli conflict. But as Baker's frustrations illustrate, no outside power can impose a solution; the bickering factions must want peace themselves. And the evident truth is that they don't, or at least not badly enough. "The only party willing to move is the Palestinians," says a senior Western diplomat in Washington, exaggerating only slightly. "And no one," he adds, "gives...
Four cops are indicted as their chief battles resignation demands. -- A gang movie sparks widespread violence. -- Where are the Democrats? -- Returning troops may find normal life a letdown...
With their jobs secure, the biggest problem facing most returnees will be simply fighting off the everyday monotony that is bound to creep back into their lives after the life-and-death stimulation of war. "There's going to be a very high high, followed by a natural letdown," says Meg Falk, head of the Navy Family Support Program. "Everyone's got to come down to earth...