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...Blewett says of his attitude adjustment. “This is what I need to do. I don’t need to worry about my form, because I know I can make the field goal—I’ve made it a thousand times. And all it comes down to is how I’m feeling about myself, how I’m feeling about where I want to kick it, and that’s where it’s going...
...nice to score but it definitely would have been a thousand times better to get the win,” Hodel said...
...There are some 1,400 CF6 engines in use worldwide on planes including Boeing 747s, 767s and Airbus 300s, and there are four thousand CF6-equipped airplane takeoffs each day. It's a common engine, but it has had problems. In a sternly worded report last December, the NTSB warned that the CF6 engines presented a potentially "catastrophic" threat. The NTSB recommended to the FAA that it take action, including a review of the design of the engine's high pressure turbine disc because of a number of dangerous incidents in the past few years...
...spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherised upon a table …” And I thought, ‘damn, this is really good.’ So I bought the book and I read the whole thing cover to cover maybe a thousand times. After all, I didn’t have that many poetry books...
...urge everyone to put aside their individual concerns for an afternoon and head down to Harvard Stadium this Saturday. In what looks set to be a close and exciting game, the Harvard football team deserves our support. It would be fantastic if ten thousand men and women of Harvard could turn up tomorrow to lustily cheer on their school. Our football team merits nothing less...