Word: tars
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...always emerged. In the history of scientific and technological endeavor, there are few if any cases in which the end was exactly what was intended at the beginning. In the mid-19th century, William Perkin sought a way to make artificial quinine out of coal tar and ended up with the first aniline dye. Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone would be used only to inform people of the arrival of telegrams. Alessandro Volta designed a eudiometer for exploding bad-smelling gases with electricity. It ended up as the spark plug. A 1983 interuniversity computer network, intended as an academic...
...They can't just tar the guidance department. That I'm not listening to," she adds...
When the 2000 NCAA Tournament rolls around this fall, the favorite should naturally be No. 4 North Carolina. Although the Tar Heels lost its top spot in the rankings due to a 2-1 loss to ACC rival Clemson, North Carolina has still won 15 of 18 national titles...
...wasn't that long ago, 1997 to be exact, that Harvard itself was in the national quarterfinals, and standing in the way of the Tar Heel dynasty...
...about substance. I think the best substance turns out in the end to be the best politics--that's a view some see as quaint, but I think it's true." Here Gore is executing a version of the Dick Morris game plan, using issues to gild himself and tar his opponent--hence the Democrats' ads attacking Bush's health-care record in Texas for leaving too many poor children without coverage. "Gore's ads make Texas look like it's Belize or Bulgaria or someplace where kids live in huts with no roofs and everything's polluted," said...