Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House that evening when he learned that another old pal from Arkansas had run into ethical problems. White House operations chief David Watkins was forced to resign Thursday after it was disclosed that he commandeered a $2,380-an-hour presidential helicopter for a round of golf in suburban Maryland. Watkins had been a liability for months; he had been reprimanded in 1993 for firing seven White House travel officers on charges of financial impropriety. An embarrassed and angry Clinton promised that the Treasury would be "fully reimbursed" for Watkins' indiscretion. A day later, White House officials admitted that...
...comet now on its way to smashing into Jupiter. Still, the giant glowing hoops that showed up in a Hubble Space Telescope picture released last week prompted veteran sky watchers to chatter like awestruck kids. "It's bizarre," said Christopher Burrows of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. "It's the neatest thing I've ever seen...
...last but not least, Harvard's women's lacrosse team has been licking its wounds after a tough 9-4 loss to Loyola of Maryland in the first round of eight-team NCAA tournament...
...wrong and how to fix it. The conversation did occur, but Bohr's son Aage, who was present, insists his father gave away no technical secrets. His account was backed up by Terletsky -- at least according to Roald Sagdeev, a former Soviet physicist now teaching at the University of Maryland, and other scholars who have read a 30-page report Terletsky wrote before he died. Terletsky, they say, termed the meeting a failure...
...they will need a server twice that big. Although the prices of these components will eventually come down, right now the start-up cost of Time Warner's Orlando project is reported to be about $5,000 a household. Says Gary Arlen, a cable-TV consultant based in Bethesda, Maryland: "You need to sell a lot of showings of Wayne's World to justify that capital expenditure per site...