Word: textbook
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA: Moments after the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on January 28, 1986, millions of people watching a textbook launch around the world saw it explode in a horrific fireball, killing seven astronauts, including school teacher Christa McAullife. TIME's Jerry Hannifin reports: "NASA learned a hard lesson with this tragedy. It learned not to be so damn complacent about machinery and the people who monitor that machinery. It changed the mindset of NASA, which up to that time had a sense of overweening self-confidence. That arrogance contributed to the explosion. NASA...
Other people procrastinate by playing computer games or doing lots and lots of pleasure reading. Compared to textbook discussions on "the mechanisms of cell death," even the phone book constitutes pleasure reading (and I'm talking White Pages here). The problem with these methods of procrastination is that they quickly generate large amounts of guilt...
Areeda was also the author of what remains the field's leading textbook, Antitrust Analysis...
...Harvard special teams have steadily improved and even displayed moments of brilliance this season. This was evident two weeks ago against UNH on a textbook perfect power play goal. While the power play team is displaying good puck movement and sets up goal scoring situations, it has been unable to put the puck in the net, as it is not taking enough shots...
...that I don't relish frostbite. It's quite stimulating and keeps me from falling asleep on top of my Ec. 10 textbook. And since most of the appliances in my room are now super-conducting, I imagine I'm using less electricity. But it's just so damn hard to get out of that nice, warm bed in the morning...