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Word: spewings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...availability of lecture notes on the Internet creates a challenge for our professors to be more than machines that spew facts and theories at their students. Professors need to provide the incentive by means of leadership and interaction for students to once again enroll in classes and resurrect the respect Weber had observed...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: Making Lectures More than Notes | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...fearing for his life). He's proud but not bombastic, he's casual in tone but almost always serious in content, and although his raps are deeply personal, he strives for the prophetic. He's a craftsman of words; he wants to tell a story, communicate ideas, not just spew rhymes, rage and attitude. Ultimately the ambition of his lyrics and themes is what makes him hip-hop's most important and interesting male solo performer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Staying Cool Under Fire | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...destruction. Because biological and chemical weapons can be made quite easily, the Pentagon went after the bigger things--like missile factories and the Special Republican Guards--vital to the weapons' protection and production. And there was another wrinkle: while Pentagon officials said they avoided hitting storage sites that might spew deadly plumes of toxins, they privately conceded they had no idea where such stockpiles might be even if they wanted to attack them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Good Did It Do? | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...Cytec Industries Inc. ranked No. 1 in the release of toxic chemicals in Louisiana during 1996. The company pumped 24.1 million lbs. of chemicals into wells and the air. The company also ranked No. 5 on the EPA's Top 50 list of companies that spew out the largest volume of toxic materials nationwide. Cytec, based in West Paterson, N.J., is a global chemical company with sales of $1.3 billion. And it has a friend in Louisiana, which has excused it from paying $19 million in local property taxes on machinery and equipment over the past decade. Records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Paying A Price For Polluters | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...efficiency isn't the only reason fuel cell advocates take the gadgets so seriously. In theory, unlike internal combustion engine--which spew greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere--a fuel cell's only "pollution" is pure water and electrical current...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fuel Cells: Unleashing the Power of Hydrogen | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

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