Word: awards
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...patent law by copying too closely the designs of products made by Corning Glass Works, the company that developed the first commercially useful communications fibers in 1970. The court enjoined Sumitomo from making and selling in the U.S. any more fibers based on Corning's designs, and will award financial damages to the American company within a few weeks. Sumitomo says it is considering an appeal...
...unexpected decision by the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award Arias the world's most prestigious peace prize was more than a personal triumph for the 46-year-old President. It was also a powerful vote of confidence for the regional peace plan authored by Arias that was signed two months ago in Guatemala City by five Central American Presidents. The prize both enhances the credibility of the fragile peace process and augments Arias' moral authority as an arbiter of peace to wrest new concessions from the various parties to the plan. At the same time, it further impedes the Reagan...
...last years, the elder stateswoman held court among young Republicans as a kind of inspirational eminence, an unmistakable figure at every conservative function, silver-haired, bright- eyed, dripping pearls and epigrams. Of all the laurels bestowed upon her in recent years, perhaps the most fitting was the Sylvanus Thayer Award, West Point's highest civilian honor, given to those who best embody the academy's motto of "Duty, Honor, Country...
...November, the Office of the Arts will also bring Grammy Award winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to Harvard for a day. Ellis Marsalis, Wynton's father and a teacher at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, will join in the workshops and discussion sessions...
...film's success is Barbara Sukowa, who plays the radical politician with a proper mixture of courage, furor and angst. Sukowa won the best actress award at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film...