Word: ores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yamaguchi, 21, a 5-ft. sprite from Fremont, Calif., known for her precise, delicate artistry. Runner-up is Nancy Kerrigan, 22, of Stoneham, Mass., a Kate Hepburn-style beauty whose elegance carries over into her performing style. Third -- but national champion in 1991 -- is Tonya Harding, 22, of Portland, Ore., a bold, natural athlete who pays little attention to nuance, less to music. Tonya gets out there and jumps...
...Ore-Ida, the Boise affiliate of H.J. Heinz Co., they peela lotta potatoes -- about 6,000 tons a day. Traditional recipe: steam 900 lbs. of potatoes in a vast vat; release the steam so the skins drop off. Preparation time: two minutes. Drawbacks: you lose nearly a tenth of a tater with the skin and generate a dun-colored, viscous by-product, used as cattle feed...
...potatoes as they fly through a funnel at the rate of 1,800 a minute. This laser surgery for spuds, designed by researchers at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, works even better on tomatoes, a key commodity for catsup-making Heinz, which owns the still experimental technology. Ore-Ida won't update its recipe for peeling potatoes until the price of lasers, already declining, drops even more. Any commercial use of laser peeling is at least three to five years away. But even this state-of-the-art technology has got to be viewed as a godsend to the soldier...
...hard time," says Rosovsky. Increasingly, institutions are divvying up their limited funds into skimpy partial-aid packages rather than full grants -- a practice known as gapping. This leads students to overextend themselves by taking on unadvisably large loans or excessively demanding jobs. Both Reed College in Portland, Ore., and Amherst College in Massachusetts, for example, will ask their financial-aid students to kick in about $500 more than last year, either from loans or campus employment...
...begin with, the article reported that "[m]ore than half" of the respondents said that they would not have attended Harvard without ROTC. This is technically true, but nevertheless misleading: The actual figure was close to 90 percent...