Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team had hoped to play better: "The team should be really strong this year," said Captain Ian Bickley '86. "This was our first outing in the bad weather. The air is much heavier than in California, so we're not used to playing in New England...
...weather didn't seem to bother Tom Aucamp, however, as the sophomore finished with a 76, the tournament's second-lowest 18-hole total. To what did Aucamp attribute his success? "I kept warm! It was really cold...
...openings. Stockvue analyzes the performance of 3,100 common stocks. The IRS provides full-text electronic versions of its 75 most requested tax publications. The FBI prints descriptions of its ten most wanted criminals, complete with digitized mug shots for quick identification. Want to know the weather in Omaha? The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides daily reports. Need the Nielsen ratings of the last episode of Dynasty? Hollywood Hotline includes them in its entertainment features. Considering a visit to the Soviet Union? A recent State Department travel advisory warned that hotel rooms were booked solid for the duration...
Doole's pilots, who flew in and out of tiny jungle fields in abysmal weather and sometimes under enemy fire, were a raffish lot. They referred to the CIA as "the customer," the ammunition they dropped as "hard rice" and being under heavy fire as "sporty." Brushes with death were described as "fascinating." To be "absolutely fascinated" meant scared witless...
From the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded two months ago, NASA has hunkered down protectively, trying to justify its decision to launch the shuttle in spite of warnings from engineers about the cold weather. Last week NASA's new shuttle chief, Rear Admiral Richard Truly, took a refreshingly different stance. The agency had been wrong, Truly candidly conceded, on that fateful day. Before another mission blasts off, he vowed, NASA would reshape not just the shuttle's faulty booster rockets but also the process for deciding when to launch. Declared the admiral: "To defend the indefensible and pretend...