Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dingman says there has been some disagreementamong administrators, masters and tutors over whenit would be best to conduct a survey of studentsentiment toward randomization and House life...
...like Bellinger's are making minority businesses even more wary of hitching their success to the vagaries of government. For many, though, the prospect of snagging huge federal and municipal contracts is too tempting to pass up. For example, the Wisconsin state legislature authorized $160 million in public funds toward a new baseball stadium in Milwaukee, with 25% of the funds for development, construction and professional services earmarked for minority businesses and 5% for female-owned companies...
...this much for North Korea's quirky leader, Kim Jong Il: he knows how to get the world's attention. Early last week, a powerful new missile lifted off from a secret base on North Korea's eastern coast and streaked toward Japan. Dumping its first stage off the western coast of Japan, the rocket sped high over the country and plunked down into the Pacific Ocean. But it packed a political wallop that resounded in capitals from Tokyo to Washington. The message: North Korea may be broke and short of food, but the Stalinist state has a dangerous...
...July 23, Arecibo directed a powerful high-frequency radio beam toward the site SOHO should have been, a million miles away orbiting the sun. Ten seconds later, NASA's 230-ft. radiotelescope at Goldstone, Calif., began picking up its faint radar profile, barely perceptible against the background noise of space...
SOHO was still close to its proper orbit, wobbling at top and bottom and rotating once a minute, too slow to have caused structural damage. Even more encouraging, the geometry of SOHO's orbit was tilting the craft's axis of rotation toward the sun by about a degree a day. That was gradually increasing the amount of sunlight hitting the solar panels. Ground controllers ordered SOHO to store that intermittent flow of energy and recharge its batteries...