Word: tunefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps at this point, when Bob Dole can't seem to decide where exactly to stand in order to reach his dream, the best rationale for his candidacy can be found in the satirical lyrics sung on the Don Imus radio show by a Rush Limbaugh impersonator to the tune of Bob Seger's Old Time Rock 'n' Roll...
...little more than five years ago, Bahcall was singing a much more melancholy tune. In May 1990, shortly after the Hubble went into orbit, engineers and scientists realized that something was horribly wrong. The telescope simply wouldn't focus properly--the result, it turned out, of a light-gathering mirror that had been ground with exquisite precision, but in the wrong shape. After a lengthy investigation, the disaster was laid to a simple, dumb mistake: a technician had assembled a device that guided the mirror-grinding process with one bolt put on backward. The hobbled Hubble could still do some...
Shortly before his death in 1980, Lennon recorded the unfinished tune--a slight hymn to deliverance, with the structure of his 1964 This Boy and the feel of his 1970 post-Beatles Love--on a low-fi home cassette, which Yoko Ono Lennon turned over to her husband's old chums. "It had hums, hisses and clicks that had to be removed," says pop maestro Jeff Lynne, formerly of Electric Light Orchestra, who produced this year's eerie session. "But that was the easy part. The hard part was getting the Beatles to play together along with him." Once they...
Pointing to the activist reform approach which a large part of the council has adopted this semester, committee members said Simons' leadership style and philosophy is more in tune with the committee's sentiments than Haynes' were...
...news was good. According to Nielsen, approximately 37 million people in the U.S. and Canada have access to the Net--either direct or through a friend, a colleague or a commercial online service like CompuServe, Prodigy or America Online. That's more than the number of TV viewers who tune in to ER each week. Some 24 million people used the Internet during the past three months--a number that represents 11% of the population 16 and older. On average, those users logged nearly 5 1/2 hours online each week; some of that time was undoubtedly taken out of hours...