Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...student as riskier than others. Students who feel obliged to maintain the highest possible grade-point average are tempted to satisfy Core requirements by taking what they perceive to be the safest courses. The pass/fail option would reduce the risk involved in taking a course that treads on unfamiliar ground...
Though the exact cause of the blaze remained to be determined, investigators decided that it started in the kitchen of the ground-floor delicatessen. James Kalb was across the street when the conflagration broke out. "I heard this great big explosion toward the front end of the casino," he said. "Then I saw this big mass of flame, about 100 feet in diameter." Pandemonium surged through the casino, which stayed open 24 hours a day, as the flames roared up through the catwalk called the "eye in the sky," used by the management to monitor gambling. The early-morning patrons...
Urging the U.S. to increase its own military presence in the region, Begin indicated that he could welcome temporary U.S. "facilities" in Israel and possibly even in Saudi Arabia or Egypt. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has made a similar offer. Near Cairo last week, U.S. and Egyptian air and ground forces held a series of joint maneuvers called Operation Bright Star. The 1,400 Americans, the first members of the new Rapid Deployment Force to venture to the Middle East, were meant to familiarize themselves with fighting and flying in the desert. Said one U.S. officer: "We've found...
...itself. But rockets also operate under handicaps. So large are the fuel requirements for reaching orbital speed of 8 km (5 miles) per sec. that no one has yet been able to place a payload into orbit totaling more than 1% of the weight of the vehicle on the ground...
FICTION: A Philip Roth Reader, Philip Roth ∙ Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ Stanley Elkin's Greatest Hits, Stanley Elkin ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble ∙ The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty