Word: passingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Taking a pass across the midfield stripe from Stewart, Yenne dribbled up the left side, drew the keeper out of the net, and pushed the ball across the goal line to add the exclamation point to the Crimson...
...threw. Of course, her male colleagues whispered that she was sleeping around. They would do that today too. But by letting herself be wined and dined, Mom was only working to overcome a locker-room atmosphere that favored her male colleagues. She may have given some pols a pass for making one. But not more so than the guys who sat by the pool with John F. Kennedy and said nothing when he went off to the cabana. She protected what we once considered private, just like the guys. When a drunken Wilbur Mills took her to see stripper Fanne...
...even this remarkable technology could become obsolete--along with the giant telescopes on Mauna Kea, Chile and everywhere else--if the grandiose plans of the world's astronomers come to pass over the next couple of decades. Telescope designers are already thinking about the next generation of ground-based supergiant telescopes, devices that will range in size from 30 m (100 ft.) across to a staggering 100 m, or 330 ft.--a telescope mirror wider than the length of a football field. These will probably be scaled-up versions of the Kecks, using hundreds of individual mirrors aligned to make...
...despite their interest and their hard work, they are finding fashion more challenging than they expected. "I thought if I showed up and was fashionable, they'd pass me," Venus admitted. Still, she got a 3.6 last year; Serena had a 3.4, which she has vowed to pull...
...chief evil, though, may be decentralization. While the Federal Government doles out most of the funding, the welfare of children has traditionally been a state matter. In fact, many states see it as such a local issue that they pass down the decision making to individual counties. The result has been unwieldy systems that are grossly mismanaged. Fearing that they may create bloated bureaucracies, the states usually earmark the money for the direct care of kids, meaning monthly payments to foster parents and salaries for social workers. In so doing, they neglect the infrastructure. There are not enough computers, secretaries...