Word: retractions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the merger deal was made public, Radcliffe officials conceded the possibility that furious alumnae would retract gifts made to the college...
Hubble went on to trump even that achievement by showing that this galaxy-studded cosmos is expanding--inflating majestically like an unimaginably gigantic balloon--a finding that prompted Albert Einstein to acknowledge and retract what he called "the greatest blunder of my life." Hubble did nothing less, in short, than invent the idea of the universe and then provide the first evidence for the Big Bang theory, which describes the birth and evolution of the universe. He discovered the cosmos, and in doing so founded the science of cosmology...
...Last year I endured the horrible, horrible pain of having to retract a bid for a band" because of lack of funds, she said. "If there were any way to avoid that, we would have...
...piece of bluefin sushi in your life; you also begin to see the tuna her way--as the lion of the deep. "They are perfectly adapted to their environment," she says. They can travel thousands of miles, sometimes at 60 m.p.h. And they are built for speed; their fins retract into slots in their sides. She notes they are also responsible citizens that, by producing "zillions of eggs," feed other animals. It is our species' feeding that she complains about. At Tokyo fish markets a single bluefin goes for as much as $75,000. The Western Atlantic population is down...
...respect the forthright way that CNN handled their reinvestigation, and we look forward to continuing to collaborate with them. We have learned a lot from the mistakes made, and we are working out new procedures to avoid them in the future. Like CNN, we retract the story and apologize...