Word: repeatability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even when we were faced with four years of a Nixon presidency and no foreseeable end to the war, there remained a great deal of hope that Harvard would not repeat Columbia's experience...
Mother would have none of it. Did she underestimate the threat or somehow expect the fortunes of war to turn? I never found out. She cited the practical reason that she did not want a repeat of the government-recommended, ultimately abortive evacuation of December 1944. We had spent three days on a crowded refugee train headed for the south. When we reached our destination, a hamlet on the Bavarian high plateau, Mother stood in the bitter wind at the station, took one look and declared that we were going back. The evacuation officials were flabbergasted: Why would anyone want...
However, the report openly condemned Fox's March 1994 response to a commission query requesting that Murdoch disclose exactly how much of the original TV stations' equity News Corp. owned. Murdoch's lawyers replied that the matter was "immaterial," prompting the FCC to repeat the request. Only then, and for the first time ever, did Fox explicitly disclose that News Corp. owned 99% of the Fox stations. Fox's attorney stated that even though the company had never disclosed this before, the overall level of ownership "has always been recognized." But the commission disagreed and blasted the attorney for trying...
...activity. Pentagon aides rushed to telephones to issue instructions. One of the first orders, State Department and Pentagon officials tell Time, was to begin immediately monitoring the passports presented by passengers wishing to travel overseas from airline terminals at Oklahoma City's airport. The FBI did not want a repeat of the Ramzi Yousef debacle, when the accused mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing managed to flee the U.S. just hours after that attack...
...having at Harvard? Most Harvard students think that no one is having sex. I've had people come up and tell me they're having sex. That's one thing about being "The Condom Guy"--you learn a lot about people's sex lives. I get a lot of repeat users...