Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Today : mostly sunny, high 40 to 45. Tonight: becoming cloudy, 30 percent chance of light rain toward sunrise. Mild, lows in the mid 30s. Tomorrow: cloudy, rain likely, high 45 to 50. Chance of rain 70 percent...
Millions of Americans make this complaint, but how many do anything about it? Sleep is a biological imperative, but do people consider it as vital as food or drink? Not in today's rock-around-the-clock world. Not in a society in which mothers work, stores don't close, assembly lines never stop, TV beckons all the time, and stock traders have to keep up with the action in Tokyo. For too many Americans, sleep has become a luxury that can be sacrificed or a nuisance that must be endured...
...probable cause of the 1988 head-on collision of two Conrail freight trains near Thompsontown, Pa., a crash that cost four lives and $6 million. Long plane flights that cross through many time zones are more common than ever, and they often leave pilots suffering from jet lag. Yet today's highly automated cockpits require pilots to be especially vigilant in monitoring dials and digital displays. Says one pilot for an international air courier: "There have been times I've been so sleepy I was nodding off as we were taxiing to get into takeoff position." As the workplace becomes...
...Spacek perform their good deeds without undue condescension, and Dwight Schultz is really fine as Spacek's husband, teetering between propriety and principle. But no actor's art can disguise the simplemindedness of this tract or the stodginess with which it is dramatized. What are audiences to learn about today's racial antagonisms from a long-ago tug of war between saints (the black underclass) and demons (the Alabama plutocracy)? The movie plays like a Christmas card whose sentiment is noble but whose poetry is doggerel...
...begin producing from 32 wells in 1993. Shell has also drilled an exploratory well at a 2,300-m (7,500-ft.) depth, and Mobil and Chevron hold leases to search in 3,000 m (10,000 ft.) of water. As long as oil prices make the gamble worthwhile, today's explorers will apparently go to any depths to unleash the next great undersea gusher...