Word: poled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then tornadoes have long been known for their capricious behavior. The same twists of wind that can derail trains and rip up pavement can be surprisingly gentle. Says National Weather Service meteorologist Donald Burgess: "I've seen a phonograph record driven through a telephone pole, and the record wasn't broken. I've seen a fridge thrown several hundred yards, while glasses on a nearby table weren't touched." Last month Betty Lou Pearce, a 64-year-old clerk from Pilot, North Carolina, hid from a tornado in her bathtub and moments later found herself sliding into the woods...
...another of the organization's preachers. Months later, still furious, Franklin explicitly connected the incident to the politics of succession. "Listen, people will shoot you for $20; for $90 million, who knows?" he told Business North Carolina. "I wouldn't touch B.G.E.A. leadership with a 10-foot pole." Although, he added, if his father asked him personally he would give it "prayerful consideration...
...that's compassion. And the Democrats, I assure you, won't touch it with a 10-ft. pole. Why? Because a government subsidy is transparent. You can't hide the cost, in tax money, from the electorate. Forcing the employer to give the raise, on the other hand, has the politically felicitous appearance of a free lunch...
Harvard (11-9, 5-3 Ivy) split two double-headers, against Columbia and Penn, leaving them perched precariously atop the Rolfe totem pole, with only one game separating them from second-place Dartmouth...
...taken up the pursuit of digital intelligence with as much audacity or ambition as Lenat and Brooks. Their parallel quests to build what may be the world's first convincingly humanlike computer programs have been compared to the dramatic 1911 Amundsen-Scott race to the South Pole; but even that analogy falls short. For the rivalry between the two researchers is not merely personal (Brooks considered naming his robot Psych! just to get Lenat's goat) but deeply philosophical as well, straddling the almost theological schism that runs down the middle of contemporary...