Word: ued
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been about his wives, he had a deep moral sense. At the height of World War I, he risked the Kaiser's wrath by signing an antiwar petition, one of only four scientists in Germany to do so. Yet, paradoxically, he helped develop a gyrocompass for U-boats. During the troubled 1920s, when Jews were being singled out by Hitler's rising Nazi Party as the cause of Germany's defeat and economic woes, Einstein and his "Jewish physics" were a favorite target. Nazis, however, weren't his only foes. For Stalinists, relativity represented rampant capitalist individualism; for some...
...American black guy, "Night Stick" (very much in the NCO mold here), against "Yugoslavia," a balding, grubby, stringy-haired villain waving a Yugoslav flag, that cynical side pushed to the fore. Did that country need any more punishment, symbolic or otherwise? I thought not, and amid the thunderous "U-S-A" chants I found myself cackling uproariously - and even flashed a passable Serb salute for a few seconds before getting scared and holstering...
...Campaigns are using the internet to make their pitches. McCain has his own "McCain U" site, www.mccaininteractive.com. Students can join McCain groups at their own colleges and receive e-mail messages tailored to their concerns. Texas Gov. George W. Bush's campaign employs staffers full-time to recruit younger voters...
...lead seven minutes into the game. Employing a full-court press, the Mountain Hawks forced the Crimson ballhandlers into poor interior passing and in general were quicker to the ball than Harvard. Going inside didn't work either as 6'10 Lehigh junior Sah-U-Ra Brown had three of his four blocks in the first half...
...really. Political boundaries have not defined economic relationships on this continent for decades, and the Michigan-Ontario relationship is the paramount case in point. Since the Canada-U.S. auto pact was signed in 1965, the two places have been economically intertwined. Last year two-way trade between Ontario and Michigan amounted to an astonishing $52 billion, much of it related to the automotive industry. The so-called automotive alley of assembly plants and partsmakers that stretches from Toronto and London, Ont., to Detroit is one of the world auto industry's most productive centers. But autos are nothing like...