Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deadly dance. Then, as the car his partner was driving skidded along a mud-slicked road near Hanston, Kansas, Robert Davies-Jones glanced nervously through a rear window and saw that this menacing whorl of dust and debris was following a bit too closely behind. Just as wild animals sometimes turn and track their hunters, Davies-Jones realized with growing alarm, the tornado he had started out chasing was chasing him. No, this is not one of those scary scenes from the movie Twister, which opened in theaters across the country last week (see review). Rather, it is a slice...
Storm-chasing scientists do have a genius for coming up with some pretty wild ideas, however. The University of Oklahoma's Howard Bluestein really did develop an instrument akin to the device called Dorothy in Twister. Bluestein, who was one of the models for meteorologist Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) in the movie, named his device the Totable Tornado Observatory, TOTO for short, and tried to intercept an oncoming funnel. TOTO was a bit unwieldy (it tipped the scales at 400 lbs.), so researchers switched to the more sprightly Turtles, which are cheaper to build and more easily deployed...
...really wild that we've come to be able to talk about gender, certainly, and race and ethnicity, but not about class yet. I think it's the next thing we have to address," says Lee A. Warren, associate director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning...
...Keillor favors reality, by which he means something other than the corporate world. Sure, the life he describes at the re-engineered Amalgamated Potato stinks, but (news flash, Garrison) bad smells are real. And what does he offer instead? The romantic notion that life in the wild where the caribou roam is better. Well, he also invented a town where all the children are above average. If all those "drones" with salaries "in the mid five digits" he describes flee the corporate world, who will be left to pay Keillor for spinning yarns and reading poetry on public radio...
...collected 55% (New York State probably took another 5%) in estate taxes on the fair market value of the auctioned items. Presuming that value was stated to be somewhere around the Sotheby's catalog figures, the tax collectors can argue that the auction results proved it to be a wild underestimate and press for 60% of a far higher figure, though perhaps not the whole $34.5 million (which in any case will be reduced some 12% by the buyers' premiums and sales commissions for Sotheby's). Alternately, the Kennedys might pay capital-gains tax at a combined federal-state rate...