Word: stream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hoffman, Seaboard's vice president of finance, took note during that luncheon of the stream of government aid: "We're especially grateful to the state of Minnesota and the city of Albert Lea, who together since 1984 have supplied literally millions of dollars in the form of grants, tax incentives and loans to the facility. They had a lot of confidence in it... Truly this has been a lesson in economic development...
Three million people in this theater. Or so it felt. Easily half of them full of hopes the other half couldn't meet. Enough real stones on the dames to dam a stream, enough fake smiles between them to damn a soul. I wanted to be there about as much as I wanted to be on a Boeing flying into the Eiffel Tower. But Big Ben had made it clear that it would be in the best interest of my natural teeth, and as I needed those pearlies to bite the bullet that I knew was heading...
Throughout the stream-of-consciousness speech, the professor of humanities at the University of Arts in Philadelphia hit upon her favorite topics of scorn: post-modernism and post-stucturalism, Ivy League humanities departments and political correctness...
...that its strongest side faces the incoming Leonids." Even the Hubble Space Telescope will turn its back to the meteoroids, to shield the aperture through which it scans the heavens. And the flat solar panels that energize most of the satellites will be turned edge on to the Leonid stream to minimize the possibility of impact...
...occur over China, Japan and Southeast Asia--during daylight hours in the U.S.--J.P.L.'s Yeomans suggests that Americans who are curious should scan the early morning skies on both Nov. 17 and Nov. 18. They will certainly see some meteors, he says, and the vagaries of the meteor stream may just present them with a good show. Anyway, he says, celestial circumstances make it unlikely the Leonids will perform much in the next 100 years or so. "Do it now or next November," he urges, "or write it off for the next century...