Word: shined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter must be shooting out of these still forming stars. Only by slinging some of the incoming matter away as a counterbalance could the protostars avoid going into a superfast spin. When a new star finally becomes massive enough to ignite the nuclear-fusion reaction that makes it shine, the resulting outward blast of energy would stop any more matter from falling in, the jets would turn off, and the remaining dusty disk would start clumping together to form planets...
...doesn't shine on the desert towns where California, Arizona and Nevada converge. It glares, searing the asphalt highways lined with truck stops and trailer parks until the air shimmers with heat. In the neon nights, the listless and the luckless -- dropouts, boozers, gamblers and speed freaks -- take refuge in cheap motels. No one knows how many drifters travel the roads, how many alienated Americans hole up in motel rooms, in anger or despair. No one can even say if there are more of the rootless in this desolate corner of America than elsewhere. Theirs is an invisible subculture...
...search dragged on into the night Wednesday, floodlights made the plaza shine like noon, and the crews kept pressing deeper into the rubble. The effort proceeded an inch at a time, on hands and knees, with crowbars and axes. Rescue workers were on two-hour shifts and were ordered to visit counselors to help them cope with what they were seeing. But many wanted only to get back inside the building while there was still some hope that someone might still be alive in there...
Instead of allowing the over glamour of Balanchine's choreography to shine through, the talented company looks like dancing fish out of water, in atrocious, spangled satin tutus, no less. Their smiles forced, the company is unable to muster the crucial showy energy to make the piece a success...
...Rain or shine, few Americans will go to the polls on Election Day in November 2020. Most will vote by modem, telephone or mail -- and overall citizen participation will be much greater than it is today. So will citizen interest, partly because four or five reasonably serious presidential candidates will be on the ballot, along with at least one official referendum and perhaps half a dozen national advisory referendums. Enthusiasm for the democratic process will have reached a point where even Washington should be more popular...