Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December 1987 Mitnick was convicted of stealing software via telephone from a Santa Cruz, Calif., company. He got 36 months' probation for that crime, but the record of his offense has somehow vanished from police computers. Federal authorities suspect, although they have not proved, that he also planted a false and damaging story on an electronic financial-news network concerning a company that refused...
...flaws in Hampton's logic are particularly disturbing because they betray a widely held belief that homosexual relations somehow "hurt" others. This reasoning is an implicit approval of the violent actions against gays epitomized by this murder...
...which Harvard's academic standards are not compromised for any applicant's athletic skills. The Admissions Committee strives for diversity in excellence in the candidates it selects, regardless of whether it is manifested on the cello, the stage or the diving platform. And the implication that athletics is somehow less intellectual an activity than music or art is somewhat misleading. The required academic mastery of Coach Restic's "multiflex offense" to perform well on the football field or the required knowledge of the physics of the hammer throw is no less intellectual than the talents of gifted singers or pianists...
...step aside after the settlement is complete. Without a forceful new leader of unquestioned integrity, the company is in danger of losing morale and momentum -- and something else as well. Mike Milken engendered an innovative spirit at Drexel. If the company is to thrive once again, it must somehow preserve that spirit while at the same time escaping the darker side of his legacy...
...carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will still increase -- along with the likelihood of some global warming. Even if toxic dumping is banned outright and that ban is strictly enforced, some lakes and aquifers will be tainted by poisons that have already been released. Even if global population growth could somehow be cut in half, there would still be more than 45 million new mouths to feed next year, putting further strain on a planet whose capacity to sustain life is already under stress...