Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...caused by an emergency shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines 48 seconds after launch, Russian Space Agency officials said. No injuries were reported. It was the twenty-eighth launch and seventh failure of a Zenit-2 since 1985. For Russia, the disaster is the latest in a string of setbacks, which have included fires on-board Mir and delays in the construction of critical components for the international space station. But TIME's Jeffrey Kluger reports that such difficulties are to be expected from an aging and underfunded space program. "The lack of funding...
...with 45 players, why can't colleges play with, say, 60? According to one athletic director, eliminating 20 football scholarships would save his school a quarter of a million dollars. A university could fund a women's lacrosse team for the money it spends on the sixth string of its football team...
...catch some blackbird's wings/ And we will fly away to heaven") in the gorgeous remake of her Gulf Coast Highway, a duet with Hootie's Darius Rucker. His gruff baritone and Griffith's twangy soprano soar apart, then join in double rapture. The instrumentation--string quintet, Floyd Cramerish rolling piano, electric slide guitar--makes the song a pretty little anthology of pop's fine old tendency to synthesize, not isolate, strains of music. Listening in the Great Beyond to Griffith's salving ballads, God might tap His foot. Even Kurt Cobain might crack an enlightened smile...
...Speaker will have plenty of time to raise the $643,000 to pay Dole back. There was a pause: by then, someone suggested, Dole might be dead. Right, said Dole, who quickly settled on a beneficiary: "Strom Thurmond." Then Dole signed the papers with Gingrich--the latest in a string of back-room deals that made him the top legislator of his generation...
After final exams are over, the Harvard Din and Tonics will be packing their bags for a jaunt to London, after which they will board a cruise ship back to New York. The only string? They'll have to sing for their supper...