Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's safe to say there are many, many different little fault lines," says Professor of Law Reinier H. Kraakman...
...speak from experience, having taught a Core course ("The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization") since the late 1970s. Over the years I have worked closely with the administrators of the Core, who are very experienced and able academics, but even our combined efforts cannot provide a fail-safe yearly calculus for enrollments. If we underestimate the numbers of students, then I have to go out and find additional teaching help at the last minute--which inhibits the kind of careful planning that I need for the course. If we overestimate the numbers of students, then I have...
Designing the new parachute was Popov's greatest challenge. Hang gliders weigh only 500 lbs., even if you include the pilot. A small Cessna, on the other hand, weighs more than 1,700 lbs., and a standard parachute big enough to float such a craft safely to the ground would fill up a 50-gal. drum. Not very practical. Undaunted, the BRS engineers figured out how to pack the parachute under pressure in such a way that it takes up no more space than a large briefcase and is mounted over the center of the wings. If the craft...
...glossy pages of Vanity Fair. Now comes Katie Roiphe, 25, to play the part of heretic in the feminist crusade. In The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus, Roiphe targets what she calls the "rape culture" spawned by college feminists who claim that no woman is ever safe from the threat of rape or sexual harassment...
...each year the job gets tougher. The audience wants something different; critics clamor for "innovation." But how many new concepts are left in a cable-saturated world where viewers have seen everything -- and seen it all over again in reruns? Judging by a fall crop dominated by play-it-safe family sitcoms, not many...