Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tell that to the weather-mongering media, which of course is nothing if no one is watching. Overcautious governors may have been a little sheepish when Floyd turned out to be less than billed, but the news outlets had every reason to feel proud: Floyd was on the lips of an entire nation, and the ratings were colossal even when Floyd was not. When the hurricane passed Florida by on Tuesday, the Weather Channel logged a record 2.5 million viewing households; its web site, www.weather.com, scored a record 23 million visits. The damage peaked when Floyd hit North Carolina early...
...that sense, things have gotten worse. Roosevelt didn't know who rejected him from the Porcellian, but he and everyone else knew why: that person, whoever he was, just didn't like Roosevelt. No one would have pretended there was any other reason...
...cancel each other out. "My sense from the last meeting was that the Fed was done unless it saw some clear and unambiguous evidence that inflation was on the rise," he says. "And there certainly hasn?t been any of that." Plus, says Baumohl, there?s one more good reason that the Fed will stand pat next month: Greenspan?s mind is on Floyd...
...Everything is an occasion to drink--happy or sad. We just drink for any reason." That's what I heard on campus last week when I asked a group of college upperclassmen to comment on a full-page newspaper ad signed by 113 college presidents. The ad features a huge bottle of "Binge Beer" and warns parents that binge drinking on campus has reached dangerous proportions. The awareness campaign, spearheaded by Graham Spanier, president of Penn State, is backed up by a study of binge drinking released by Harvard's School of Public Health, in which 43% of college students...
...school, but the home remains mostly monochrome. The small-screen picture of race has inevitably suffered, for while in cop shows and historical movies race is an "issue," only in our most intimate domestic and social arenas can we see it as a multifaceted fact of life. For that reason alone, An American Love Story (PBS, Sept. 12-16, check local listings), a 10-hr. documentary about an interracial family, is noteworthy. What makes it extraordinary is how it shows a family--period--dealing with mundane life and marriage, from work to school to health scares...