Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fortunately for our planet, SGR1900+14 is 20 light-years away. Its radiation was so weakened by the time it got here that its X rays and gamma rays couldn't penetrate the atmosphere. No one was harmed--except, perhaps, for textbook publishers, who are suddenly, through no fault of their own, out of date...
...wouldn't say a lot of kids were using it, but I would say I've seen a lot of kids pleased with it and indicating that their parents were too," said Francis J. Mahoney, who works in the Coop textbook department...
...Coop employees working the registers in the textbook department, Sarah V. Deloach and Anita K. Valentine, said they had not noticed either a huge jump in sales or a large quantity of students using Crimson Cash to buy books...
...Crimson, in its "never-say-die" spirit thatwas the staple of Saturday's battle, respondedagain just under five minutes later. An inspiredattack by the freshman "Croatian Sensation" MarkoSoldo led to a Harvard corner kick from the rightside. The Crimson capitalized, as sophomore RyanKelly, demonstrating textbook cranialcoordination, beat the Yale keeper with a headerto the upper right corner...
...closer inspection, however, the Deal is a textbook example of the wreckage that occurs when political imbalance--weakness on the part of federal and state environmental agencies, blustering strength among enemies of land-use regulation--allows owners of private property to hold the environment at ransom...