Word: pit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's a lot of confidence for a newcomer to the collegiate diving scene, but it takes confidence to dive, whether it be 100 feet below the ocean's surface, 10,000 feet above the ground, five feet above a mobbed mosh pit, or off of a one-meter diving board, in Matt Murray's case...
...upgrading the entire building, and he retrained just 12 workers instead of all 150. He slashed the number of signatures needed to get visitors into high-security areas from nine to three. Ignoring bureaucratic protocol, he and Kaiser-Hill excavated toxic soils from an area known as Ryan's Pit without preparing exhaustive studies. Silverman bristles at the seemingly arbitrary personnel rules he's supposed to follow. "Why does it take 16 people to move a single barrel from one building to another?" he asks rhetorically...
...collaborators, who used the Hubble to spot a superheated disk of gas spinning at a dizzying 1.2 million m.p.h. at the very heart of the galaxy M87, 50 million light-years from Earth. The only reasonable explanation: the gas is funneling, like water down a drain, into the gravitational pit of a black hole as massive as 2 million suns...
...rich territory was seized by rebel Serbs in 1991; negotiations for its return are under way outside the Dayton conference. Clinton, according to State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, personally remonstrated with Tudjman about giving up the idea of using force. With good reason: it could pit the Croatian and Serbian armies against each other in the bloodiest war yet to tear the former Yugoslavia...
YOUR THOUGHT-PROVOKING ARTICLE ON the EQ factor falls into the very pit it attempts to avoid. The question should not be "Why the smartest kid in the class will probably not end up the richest," but "Why the smartest kid will probably not end up the happiest." Success today is measured by money, something as quantifiable as IQ. Happiness is more like EQ: vague, but you know if you've got it. JULIEN OLIVIER Barrington, New Hampshire...