Word: spectacularly
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...Hubble Space Telescope has performed some spectacular feats of science since a crew of astronauts heroically corrected the instrument's blurred vision last December. The orbiting observatory has snapped dramatic pictures & of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashing into Jupiter, discovered hundreds of what seem to be solar systems in the making, and provided proof that giant black holes lurk in the cores of galaxies. But all this was just a warm-up for the Hubble's most eagerly awaited mission: to gauge the age of the universe. The question of how old the heavens are is not only fascinating...
...York City Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani set off one of the more spectacular political bombshells of this election season by publicly endorsing one of the biggest Democratic pols targeted by the G.O.P.: New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Giuliani, who was blasted by party leaders for his insubordination, may have gambled his political career on the endorsement. He said his decision to pass over Republican challenger George Pataki came after asking himself, "Who has the best chance in the next four years of successfully fighting for ((the city's)) interests?" Pataki is closely allied with Giuliani's Republican foe, New York...
Marie Hartwell-Walker of Amherst, MA, who has attended the event for the past six years, also said the performance was especially spectacular this year...
...elder Marcus also tried some "spectacular food in the Union: a half grapefruit, a glass of water and a piece of...something...
...Dartmouth defenders] were up there with Cornell and Princeton, but the main thing was that our fullbacks could take out their linebackers, which made my job easy, and of course Vinny had a spectacular day," Hu said...