Word: withstands
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...achievement. "In his everyday life I see a more confident person," she says. "Not just as a player but as a person. Because he was able to manage the stress and overcome it." McGwire's challenge was thrust upon him, not only to deliver with his bat and to withstand the pressure, but to act like a hero for at least one baseball season. If he did it a little stiffly, you have to wonder this: Who would feel natural with 10,000 bulbs flashing as he worked? And would you want that person as a role model for your...
...realize developing such a program would require the school district to hire and train qualified admissions officers at a considerable expense. But the benefits far outweigh the costs. A plan of this type would not only be more likely to withstand inevitable legal challenges but also serve as a model for other public secondary schools searching for a viable and constitutional method of preserving diversity in the classroom--which was Boston's intent in the first place...
...Every great nation can withstand anything. It will spring back and will flower," he said...
With skins of an ultrathin, steely composite of polyester and polyethylene ("like sandwich bags," says Tueller), the new balloons will withstand pressures created by stratospheric solar heating and retain enough helium to circle the globe five to 10 times. The first of NASA's smaller trial balloons is to be launched in March 1999, to be followed a year later by a demonstration flight carrying a Washington University cosmic-ray detector. Over the horizon Tueller sees more astronomy and astrophysics experiments as well as Earth monitoring, such as observing the ozone hole, and perhaps even semipermanent balloons to replace some...
...streamed into the Gulf region, the angry and defiant Iraqi spokesman said Baghdad would make no concessions. "Iraq has accepted a U.S. attack as a fait accompli," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They see it as the next step in their battle against sanctions. Iraq believes it can withstand U.S. attacks, and that pressure from Arab countries will eventually force Washington to back down...