Word: poste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...site will be similar to the newsgroup "harvard.marketplace," where students can post for-sale notices, but the Web site has the advantage of better organization and ease of access...
Boston University psychiatrist Janet Osterman is having trouble recruiting survivors for a research project on awareness at Boston Medical Center because so many refuse to enter the hospital to be interviewed. Osterman says her subjects display all the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, including flashbacks, irrational fears and, particularly common, severe insomnia. "They are afraid to go to sleep," she explains. "Letting go feels too much like going under anesthesia...
...ground controllers had different ideas. "Stay at your post!" they ordered. Tsibliyev repeated his request a few minutes later, and was told again, "Stay at your post!" At NASA, once the sworn rival of the Soviet space program, such an order would probably not stand, not when the pilots being commanded were self-styled cowboys like Alan Shepard or Gordon Cooper. But the Russian program was a different beast, and cosmonauts learn early that the word of the ground is all but inviolable. Tsibliyev, despite himself, stayed at his post...
...lacerated lip and mild concussion. Gretzky finished the final six minutes of the game before leaving to visit her, though he later said he maybe should have left immediately (it's not as if he scored in the Rangers' 1-0 loss to the Blackhawks). Jones, the New York Post reported, wasn't angry...
...suppose I first noticed this profusion when first I inscribed a six-digit post-office box number into my book, at almost exactly the same time as ZIP codes (which arrived on our shores only in 1963, to cries of "governmental harassment" from Hunter S. Thompson) began more insistently including four extra digits and a dash. Suddenly, the 213 area code for Los Angeles had sprouted seven alternatives, and French phone numbers were 10 digits long, and my friends were stockpiling spouses' names upon their own. Here in Japan, my three-digit postal code spawned two extra digits, and even...