Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of us are unwilling to believe the rather problematic explanation that some higher power has cursed us. But many of us, meritocrats that we are, are willing to believe at some inexpressible level that everything that happens to us occurs for a reason--or at the very least, that we can control our own actions and that those actions have consequences. So instead of divine retribution, we are forced to believe something much worse. By writing too much and not reading enough, by e-mailing too much and not phoning enough, by working too much and not playing enough...
...really motivational to...see the level of accomplishments that is possible for young leaders today," said Palanisamy, a native of Gilbert, Ariz...
...think that here is a sufficient level of directedness and that anything additional could [stifle] fundamental research," says Professor of Chemistry Eric N. Jacobsen...
...veteran EA-6B pilot told TIME he was in no rush to blame his colleagues. The plane, he says, is complicated to fly and, unlike some military aircraft, has no automatic terrain-following features. On a low-level run, the plane is flying at nearly 500 m.p.h. "At that speed," he notes, "after a minute you're six miles off course." By week's end Italian authorities were insisting the plane was up to six miles outside the approved flight corridor. Marine officials agree the plane was too low, and some wonder if it was trying to fly under...
DIED. CARL WILSON, 51, a founder of America's quintessential pop group, the Beach Boys; of complications from cancer; in Los Angeles. A gifted guitarist and the youngest of the band's Wilson brothers, Carl was seen as the relatively level-headed and dependable sibling, while Brian, the eldest, brooded as the troubled genius and Dennis, who drowned in 1983, played the lovable rogue. However, Carl too went through bouts with drugs and alcohol. His sweet, smooth pitch is heard in lead vocals in a number of the Beach Boys' most beloved hits, including Good Vibrations and God Only Knows...