Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are still many games to go in this match. Maybe Fischer will astonish us again. Maybe he will shake off the years and, magically, become great again, young again. But if he continues on this trajectory of mediocrity, he will have addressed a warning to all the gods living and dead: Never come back...
...official committee worked on these remaining texts at a painfully slow pace while granting others severely limited access. By the late 1980s, scholarly temperatures reached the boiling point. One recent book claims Roman Catholic priests beholden to the Vatican conspired to cover up the texts lest they shake the doctrinal foundations of the mother church. The true reasons are more mundane: too few scholars monopolizing too much material, team members' personal problems, shortage of money, political and academic intrigue and plain incompetence...
...today more sophisticated systems can alert people as much as a minute before a city starts to shake. "This is possible," explains Massachusetts Institute of Technology geophysicist M. Nafi Toksoz, "because seismic waves propagate through the earth's crust relatively slowly, 5 to 8 km/sec. With an extensive network of sensors, we can locate the epicenter and determine the magnitude of an earthquake. This gives us the opportunity to warn people in outlying areas." How long a warning depends on the distance from the epicenter. Had such a system been in place in Mexico, for example, residents of Mexico City...
While the public relations effort to mold Hillary into a traditional my- heart-belongs-to-hubby First Lady means that campaign insiders are reluctant to publicly acknowledge her substantive role, her imprint on the staff shake-up seems clear. With Hillary as the principal guardian of the candidate's body and mind, it is telling that just before the convention she propelled the couple's longtime friend Susan Thomases -- a sometimes confrontational New York City lawyer -- into the powerful slot of head scheduler. In that role Thomases serves Hillary's agenda to make sure Clinton's tendency to please everyone...
Murphy, Oliver said, is not afraid to consider creative new ideas for fundamental reforms that may shake up the public education establishment...