Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confuse matters. For example, stars, including the sun, pulse rhythmically with waves generated deep in their interiors, making the surface bulge toward and sink away from the Earth just as though the whole star were wobbling. Stars can also have huge blotches--sunspots, in essence--that change the mix of colors as they rotate into and out of view. And spectrometers are subject to all sorts of errors that come from changes in temperature and electronic glitches. Thus, Marcy and Butler had to run their observations through a sophisticated computer program they'd written to sort useful from useless information...
GEORGE GERSHWIN--EVERYONE remembers him. But Edward Elzear ("Zez") Confrey? Pauline Alpert? John Green? Dana Suesse? Today no one can even pronounce some of these names, yet once upon a time--back in the 1920s and '30s--all four of these pianist-composers thrilled large audiences with a scintillating mix of ragtime, jazz and classical sounds that became known as novelty piano. Lost in the shadows cast by Gershwin's brilliance, they have been forgotten, and undeservedly...
...mother died at the moment I was born, and so for my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and eternity; at my back was always a bleak, black wind." The narrator and title figure is Xuela Claudette Richardson, 70, a native of Dominica, by ancestry a mix of Carib, African and Scot, by emotional makeup surely part Kincaid. Since she has no mother (her father is dutiful but distant; in any case men are minor planets in the author's cosmology), she reinvents herself--as did Kincaid--and makes her way in the world by allying with various...
...campaign aides told anyone who would listen that the issue of issues was "the economy, stupid!"? In an economy as enormous and complex as that of the U.S., there can rarely be any all-embracing answer, but the data and the stories of individual people show an extraordinary mix of achievement and stress...
...hoped to prove once and for all that he is capable of governing, not just breaking windows and upsetting the furniture in the House. So he sat with his advisers at the Old Ebbitt Grill on 15th Street, scribbling notes, picking at appetizers and searching for some magic mix of spending cuts, entitlement reductions, tax cuts and policy changes that could win an overwhelming majority of Republicans in Congress and still get the President's signature...