Word: uses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...local pilot, had canceled a planned flight from Essex because of a troubling haze that had already reduced visibility. Bailey decided to ground himself when he looked off in the distance for a familiar mountain ridge but couldn't see it. "That is a test that most pilots use at the airport," he says...
Celebrity is hardly a prerequisite. Kennedy's life would have been just as valuable had he been, to use another poet's phrase, a "mute, inglorious Milton." A beloved colleague at TIME died recently who was unknown to most of the world, save the friends she cherished, yet gestures of friendship were her public service. The measure of a life is often taken in the smallest units. On television, a parking attendant in the garage that Kennedy used mentioned that Kennedy came over personally to wish the man a merry Christmas every year. A middle-age African-American woman with...
...time at Harvard I started messing around with muffins," he says. "I made these things called power muffins, I would use the students as my subjects...
...development will be issued its coveted certificate of occupancy in two weeks, which means that the new building will be officially ready for use...
...West Bank neighborhood where tap water is carefully boiled in order to disinfect and toilets are turned on and off between usage. By contrast, in the magazine office where I work, the water cooler of fresh mineral water is restocked daily and, although our tap water is drinkable, we use it only to wash off our coffee mugs...