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...warn first-years that fulfilling the Core is trickier than it seems. Planning to meet requirements is well and good, but don't depend on being able to carry out your plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tackle the Core Early, or Else | 10/10/1996 | See Source »

...women will suffer from back pain at some time during their lives, and an estimated third of those between the ages of 40 and 55 are struggling with it right now. But doctors can definitively diagnose the problem in only about 10% of cases. Curing the ache is even trickier. Surgery, for example, rarely provides significant benefit, according to a 1994 Federal Government report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUTTING BACKS ON TRACK | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

...transition from high school is more difficult than it looks due to the longer courses and trickier pin placement," Bozivich said...

Author: By Jason E. Schmitt, | Title: W. Linksters Finish Seventh | 10/3/1995 | See Source »

...after the U.N. Security Council deadline for Saddam to leave Kuwait had passed. The bombing went so well that by mid-February, Bush was eager to start the ground offensive. Powell relayed the President's wishes to Schwarzkopf, but setting a date proved to be trickier than Powell expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY AMERICAN JOURNEY: Colin Powell | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...Star Trek was never, and hopefully never will be, my vision of the future," says Berman, 48, a former documentary filmmaker and children's TV producer. "It's Gene Roddenberry's vision that I agreed to uphold." The job is trickier than it might seem. Berman, a vice president at Paramount when Roddenberry tapped him as the producer of The Next Generation, has had to sail his enterprise between the Scylla of Roddenberry's own "prime directive" -- a stricture against any conflict among members of Starfleet -- and the Charybdis of mass-market appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Torch Has Passed Off-Camera, Too | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

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