Word: ramming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...among other furniture items, the pool table Heffernan brought from home, a couple of couches, a table and a shelf. On the shelf sit two massive speakers (Jeffrey M. Peppercorn '92 is in a band.) Under the shelf are an assortment of kegs. On the wall is a ram's head (J.B. Baker '92 says his grandfather shot...
...collision with an icy comet? Rather small, but there are plenty of asteroids in the heavens capable of causing devastation. Astronomers have identified more than 130 asteroids whose paths could intersect earth's orbit. Consisting largely of rock or iron, some are over a mile wide and could ram the earth at 65,000 km (40,000 miles) per hour. The odds of a strike within the next 50 years are probably less than one in 10,000. But whenever it does happen, the explosion could dwarf a nuclear bomb blast...
...cool, dedicated efficiency. But with 8,300 officers serving an increasingly multiracial population of 3.4 million, the L.A.P.D. has the lowest officer-to-resident ratio of the nation's six largest police departments. To compensate, the L.A.P.D. pioneered the use of SWAT teams, helicopter pursuit and a motorized battering ram, tactics that differ markedly from the community-patrol approach many other cities have adopted...
...Fisher. "The trick is to do it selectively" without wiping out other aquatic life. Fisher has recently found that minute traces of potassium, nontoxic to other organisms, reliably send zebra mussels into fatal shock. Paints laced with potassium, she speculates, might protect underwater structures from mussel infestation. Physiologist Jeffrey Ram of Wayne State University in Detroit makes an even more devious suggestion. Zebra-mussel spawning, he notes, is triggered by odors wafting from phytoplankton. These chemical cues ensure that the eggs hatch when the food supply is plentiful. But what if synthetic scents were dabbled like perfume above the mussel...
...they pressed us, we were going to ram it down their throat, and we did all that," Roby said about the Long Beach St. game. "We were going to challenge their guards, even though we were seven inches smaller. We did all that and we came up short and that's frustrating. These guys need to be rewarded for doing things the way we want them to do so that they can really be convinced that what we're asking them to do is going to allow us to win our league...