Word: openly
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...Questions arose. If Svetlana hadn't fallen on the vault, would she have made the error on the bars? "She was obviously handicapped on the vault," said U.S. team coordinator Bela Karolyi. "That's what started her downfall because when your confidence is shaken, you are open to another mistake." Added Russian team official Valeri Dianov: "She was emotionally depressed after that. We expected her to be Olympic champion. This is the worst performance the Russian team has ever had at the Olympics." Knowing she'd need an impossibly high score to take even a bronze medal, Svetlana chose...
...current condition of patches of open water near the North Pole is not a new one caused by man-made influences or by this generation. Historical evidence documents the presence of crops in Greenland for a few centuries after it was settled by the Vikings, a millennium ago. These atmospheric climate changes occur naturally. The sky isn't falling, and we aren't permanently melting the polar ice. LOREN D. HAMLIN Tucson, Ariz...
...human tragedy of the Kursk is obvious, and Western nations have learned that since Russia cannot behave in an open and honest manner when faced with a humanitarian crisis, we would be foolish to expect anything other than a traditional Soviet attitude to political, economic and military issues from the Russian government. PETER G. WILSON Whitburn, Scotland...
Heinecke says he can't agree to the clause because pizza isn't his only business. It wasn't even his first. Four years after moving to Thailand in 1963, Heinecke borrowed $1,200 from a loan shark to open an office-cleaning service and a public relations company. He made his first million before age 21. While pizza franchises were popping up all across America during the late '70s, he came to believe that if Thais were exposed to pizza, they would like it. "I operate on the belief that, fundamentally, we're all more similar than dissimilar...
...Dome's operators, the New Millennium Experience Company, had already rolled. The British government announced that about $65 million of sale revenues will go toward keeping the Dome running through the end of the year. This month, Dome managers asked for an additional $68 million to keep its doors open through December. Each Dome ticket sold has been subsidized by about...