Word: award
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grant is approved--and council members said the body is likely to award at least part of the requested amount--the action would mark a change in how the council determines which student groups are awarded money, council representatives said...
...this year. "This is the year for the geriatric Nobel Prize," he said -- and he was right. Lederman, along with former Columbia University colleagues Melvin Schwartz, 55, now the head of his own computer firm in California, and Jack Steinberger, 67, a research physicist in Geneva, Switzerland, won the award for their groundbreaking contributions to particle physics. In 1962 the three developed techniques to capture neutrinos and use them to discover other particles in the subatomic world, including the muon neutrino, believed to be one of the dozen building blocks of matter...
...gone ^ forth and prospered through the efforts of his students. Yet Allais had thought the prize would forever elude him. "I've been mentioned many times down the years," he said at his home in suburban Paris, "but I gave up thinking I would win it." Allais sees the award as a rebuke of official retirement policies, which forced him to give up teaching nearly a decade ago. Said he: "I'm happy to have the Nobel Prize to show how absurd this situation...
Yohe would have won the award last year if it had not been for Yale QB Kelly Ryan...
...Kevin Duckworth (15.8 p.p.g.), winner of the NBA's "Most Improved Player" award, and Clyde Drexler (27.0 p.p.g.) come through, perhaps people will forget that the Blazers made Sam Bowie the number one pick of the 1984 draft. The Chicago Bulls had the next pick. They chose Michael Jordan...