Word: passes
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...awful feeling with its antithesis in Joe (Matthew Modine), a woman's hero. I would take him home and frame him. Joe offers to take a bullet on behalf of a stranger whose boyfriend is beating her on the street. When Joe sees an old man making a lewd pass at a girl young enough to be his granddaughter, Joe asks him to consider his conduct and the age difference. I recently had an experience much like that of Joe's girlfriend, Mary, who regularly suffers body-inspired comments from a particular dirty man on her way to work. While...
Paula Jones too is asserting that Clinton's alleged pass at her created a hostile environment, but she may have a hard time proving it. The judge in the case has ruled that a single incident of harassment could be enough to create a hostile environment. But most experts agree that such an incident would have to be especially outrageous. "From what I've seen, [Jones] clearly doesn't have pervasiveness--it was just one incident--so she has to prove severity," says Deborah Epstein, who teaches law at Georgetown University. "And there are lots of things worse than this...
...Alamos National Laboratory. "It really does." He and the rest of the world had good reason to be worried. Astronomer Brian Marsden at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics had just announced that a newly discovered asteroid a mile wide was headed for Earth and might pass as close as 30,000 miles in the year 2028. "The chance of an actual collision is small," Marsden reported, "but not entirely out of the question...
...PASS THE SALT--MAYBE Defying conventional wisdom, a new study concludes that a low-salt diet might not be as beneficial as was previously thought, and researchers suspect it might even lead to increased health risks...
...many programmers at any problem, that Netscape's only chance is to harness the talents of the thousands of hackers on the Net who might be willing to improve on the program if they had a stake in it. "I wouldn't characterize the plan as a hail-Mary pass," says Zawinski, which is exactly how I did characterize it. But, he concedes, it does have an element of "I've got this box of old clothes! We can use my grandpa's barn!" In any event, Zawinski last month began hacking away on mozilla.org the Netscape-backed entity that...