Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Birtwell's going to be a key to our season, definitely," Walsh said. "I was happy about his approach, his quickness and his ability to throw three pitches, especially his changeup, for strikes...
Comparing men and women is like comparing beer and wine. The two are worlds apart. Yet narrowing the differences and balancing the scale were always at the top of the feminist agenda. It's heartening to know that a new level of thinking is coming around--the "femaleist" approach. That's the way to go. Of course, men and women are different. You betcha, and aren't I glad! JUNAINA SAULAT Karachi...
...Louis' charming, gregarious, outgoing nature, Mary was shy, reserved, socially uncomfortable and, in her own words, not very fond of other people. Mary preferred to carefully evaluate scientific evidence before reaching any conclusions; Louis, on the other hand, was often impulsive and cavalier in his proclamations. Rigorous in her approach, intensely focused and remarkably diligent, Mary quickly set new standards in the study of African prehistory, culminating in her stunning monographs on the archaeology of Olduvai Gorge...
...President Daniel arap Moi appointed Richard head of what is now the Kenya Wildlife Service. Richard raised hundreds of millions of dollars and revamped Kenya's approach to wildlife conservation, heavily arming antipoaching units and instituting a controversial edict permitting the shooting of poachers on sight. He resigned in 1994 amid politically motivated accusations of corruption, racism and mismanagement--only to be reinstated by Moi 4 1/2 years later...
...most insightful artist the genre ever produced. While most SF writers of his generation were down at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory cheering on the moon landings, Ballard was in a London art gallery throwing a Pop Art happening with a crashed car and a topless model. Ballard's approach to the future was never rooted in engineering, physics or rocket science but rather in medicine, psychology and Surrealism. Time has been kind...