Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million copies since 1983, freely borrows video-game techniques. The latest title, In Search of Spot, sends kids on a quest to rescue the Blasternaut's caterpillar-like space pal. The correct answer to a math problem puts the user closer to freeing Spot from the Trash Alien's ship. The Even More Incredible Machine, from Sierra On-Line, confronts users with more than 150 challenges to their ingenuity, ranging from launching a toy rocket to shooting a basketball through a hoop. To send up a rocket, a child must find a way to light the fuse. One possibility: using...
...Texas Republican, who relishes Bill Clinton's weaknesses the way Hannibal Lecter liked a nice Chianti. "And so is losing." You don't have to tell that to the Democratic leadership, which was a trauma unit after the 225-to-210 defeat, in which 58 House Democrats jumped ship. Or to the White House officials who use terms like "devastating" to describe their loss on a measure that was supposed to be Clinton's one sure legislative victory this year...
Perhaps recognizing that they were indeed playing a risky game, Republicans asked the President for a meeting to discuss ways to rejigger the bill. The White House demurred, still hoping to gather the necessary votes among Democrats who jumped ship. But Republicans think the other party has overplayed its hand. "They have to let us be legislators too," insisted House minority whip Newt Gingrich of Georgia. "If they decide to go down the same narrow, partisan, liberal road, they'll lose health care the same...
...Faulkner's hope, now somewhat dented, that there are laws preventing them from being excluded. The Citadel is, without doubt, one of Southern education's more idiosyncratic institutions. Founded in 1842 (it boasts that its cadets fired the first shots of the Civil War: at a Union ship), the college is a proud dinosaur of the Old South, notable today for two things. One is its alumni network, which includes at least one South Carolina Senator, one former Governor and countless other sons of Dixie whose extraordinary mutual loyalty gives them enormous local clout. The other is its abysmal treatment...
...than a year, sometimes solo, with good marks. Some admirals are more enlightened than the men below them, but until they shake up the ranks little will change. For the moment, perhaps the only way women can make their point is to take a few admirals down with the ship...