Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NTSB announced Wednesday that analysis of the flight-data recorder reveals that the doomed plane's initial descent was a controlled maneuver by the pilot rather than a precipitous plunge, and that the Boeing 767's thrust reversers had not deployed in mid-flight, ruling out a hypothesis popular in media coverage immediately after the Halloween night crash. The big question, of course, is what prompted the pilot, eight seconds after the autopilot disconnected, to begin what appears to have been an emergency descent that later turned into a hellish plunge at a speed greater than that which the aircraft...
...urban D.C. campus, full of future engineers and political scientists, Meinert "knew everybody. He was one of the most popular people on campus," Kaniewski said...
...soccer was not yet popular in the United States in 1987, Kerr chose to pursue further playing experience in England. With four elective credits to take until graduation, he took his senior spring abroad and tried his hand in the English professional leagues...
...popular "hurry up and wait" quip was funny when we arrived last night at midnight; it is already a meaningless hash of a clich?.? Processing tasks generally take about 15 minutes, and occur at the rate of perhaps three a day. Today was the issuing of Army t-shirts and a laundry bag, the taking of blood and the X-raying of teeth.? Tomorrow, we hear, will be haircuts and dealing with pay issues, possibly even the issuing of BDUs (fatigues). Standing in line for chow takes hours. Standing with the platoon at parade rest: more hours. We stand...
...know we have already wiped out--and by that I mean driven nearly to commercial extinction or, in a few cases, the brink of biological extinction--more than 100 popular species of food fish, including Nassau groupers, Chilean sea bass, orange roughy and cod. What we don't know, what we'll never know, is how many undiscovered species have been eradicated along the way. What creatures, great and small, might have contained genetic or chemical secrets that could have saved lives or improved them, conquered diseases or averted them...