Word: media
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announced Wednesday that analysis of the flight-data recorder reveals that the doomed plane's initial descent was a controlled maneuver by the pilot rather than a precipitous plunge, and that the Boeing 767's thrust reversers had not deployed in mid-flight, ruling out a hypothesis popular in media coverage immediately after the Halloween night crash. The big question, of course, is what prompted the pilot, eight seconds after the autopilot disconnected, to begin what appears to have been an emergency descent that later turned into a hellish plunge at a speed greater than that which the aircraft...
...changed our lives," Delaney-Smith said. "It is amazing at how the rich get richer because they are on TV or they have the media. I just think a lot of people were amazed that we were that competitive...I cannot even tell you how many people and emails and letters and comments we got about the work ethic, the team chemistry...
...television exposure didn't translate into respect among the Ivy League media voters...
...preseason Ivy media poll, Harvard was picked to finish behind Penn, Princeton and Dartmouth...
...areas where we have no vital security interests." Depending on how you look at it, the report represents either a more realistic look at a flawed Army or a ploy by congressional Republicans to siphon more funding into the military and cut back on peacekeeping efforts. Pressed by the media, Pentagon officials acknowledged that the Army isn't significantly less prepared than it's been in recent years, but the standards in this year's evaluation were raised by Congress...