Word: solidities
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Williams, a two-time Second-Team All-Ivy selection, anchors a solid defensive unit in front of Dupuis, and junior Paul Cantagallo returns for another year as Harvard's stopper...
Peer tutoring "provides students with opportunities to compensate for differential levels of preparation for courses, to expand their knowledge base, and to ensure a solid grasp of course material through an individually adjusted learning pace," Ducey said...
...substance-abuse consultant, but for nearly 25 years, until 1994, he headed his own company in Connecticut, Bar-Pat Manufacturing. The business was heavily involved in government contracts, making, among other things, helicopter parts and lightning-ground cables for NASA. In 1988, buoyed by government 8(a) support and solid relationships with the U.S. Navy and Air Force, the company was ranked among the top 100 black industrial and service companies by Black Enterprise. But the end of the cold war exposed Bar-Pat's overreliance on Pentagon orders. "After the Wall came down, they began canceling contracts...
...severs all hydraulic control lines for the rudders and elevators--as in the case of a DC-10 that crash-landed in an Iowa cornfield in 1989. The Swissair MD-11 successfully underwent a thorough inspection just over a year ago, and Swissair's safety-and-maintenance record is solid. But did this model have a history of wiring problems? Since 1992, the FAA has issued a number of airworthiness directives expressing concerns with the electrical systems of MD-11s. Though A.D.s are not necessarily unusual--the FAA issues 400 a year for problems of varying degrees of urgency--several...
...engineer from Portland, Maine, a scientist in New Britain, Conn. Other suspected members lived in sleepy towns like Broken Arrow, Okla.; Lawrence, Kans.; and Kennebunk, Maine. And just as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland had a scandalous predilection for photographing half-clad little girls, these seemingly solid citizens--and as many as 200 other men (and a few women) who belonged to Wonderland--shared an unspeakable secret: the codes to a dark channel in cyberspace. After a raid coordinated with 13 other countries last week, law-enforcement officials charged that Wonderland and its Wondernet operated the largest...