Word: arizonas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Huchra, Geller and Valerie de Lapparent, a graduate student, had to conduct most of their research at the Smithsonian's 1.5-meter telescope in the desert of Arizona because the air in Boston was too thick for accurate observation...
...sentiments. Other academics challenged the A.I.A. monitors to speak up in class and freely debate their professors instead of tiptoeing off with reports, which thus far seem few and trivial. Csorba acknowledges that his operatives have turned up only six "active" cases so far. One example: Mark Reader, an Arizona State political science professor who is accused of taking too strong a stance against nuclear war in his lectures...
...What is an A.W.B.? In football circles, this has long been shorthand for an "average white back." Coach Dan Devine of Arizona State, Missouri and other far-flung places happened to use the term in passing the other day, while reminiscing on the occasion of his induction into college football's Hall of Fame. He could say such a thing publicly now as comfortably as Pete Rose, throughout his historic baseball summer, kept noting "Not bad for a white guy." Is racism losing some of its subtlety, or is sport losing some of its racism...
...cosmologist from the University of California, Berkeley, declared, "It's a wimp." Still, everyone was delighted. For the skywatchers, the appearance of Halley's was a once-in-a- lifetime event, and they viewed it as a sort of psychological and even spiritual landmark. Said Astronomer Susan Wyckoff of Arizona State University in Tempe: "Just to see it at all is a thrill...
...Sunbelt and smaller metropolitan areas will continue to grow most rapidly over the next 15 years. The ten large metropolitan centers (defined as those with 1 million or more people by the year 2000) whose population will increase the fastest will be in Florida, California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Nevertheless, the Snowbelt-to-Sunbelt stampede is slowing. Says Lyle Spatz, of the U.S. Census Bureau: "It's leveling off and even shifting in the Northeast. New England has shifted its economy and attracted people." The future will remain less than cheery around the Great Lakes and in some parts...