Word: pounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Martian surface that suggested that it landed in the best position, with its base petal on the ground. Scientists were also happy that the lander came within 12 miles of the target point and was healthy, with all electronic subsystems running. If all continues to go well, the 22-pound, six-wheeled Sojourner rover will begin creeping across the dusty Ares Vallis plain late tonight...
However, at Harvard, preliminary discussion of changing the number of required courses from 32 to 34 or 36 hasn't sent those counting classes in the one-and-a-half pound Courses of Instruction scrambling; there are already plenty of general course offerings...
...team slowly but surely improved. Harvard was edged out by three seconds in its next race against Brown, and was defeated by Princeton by seven seconds a week later. Harvard did take this opportunity to pound the overmatched MIT boat, which finished 46 seconds behind Princeton...
Freshman Joe Killar earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors, marking the third year in a row that a Crimson wrestler has won the award. Killar also placed sixth in the EIWA Championships in the 150-pound weight class and was named to the All-Ivy team...
...Administration agreed to a long-sought reorganization of the State Department. This time around, Helms could be seeking concessions on drug policy towards Mexico, or to influence the debate on MFN renewal for China. "Helms will probably end up going along," Allis notes. "But not until he gets his pound of flesh...