Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his five-day stay, the Prince met Governor Mark White, toured a San Antonio urban renewal project, and visited the battlefield where General Sam Houston won Texas' independence from Mexico. He also walked through a Houston oil refinery, where the falling price of oil is doing more harm to Texas than Santa Anna ever did at the Alamo: state tax revenues from oil could fall by $1 billion this year. After presenting a Winston Churchill Award to Dallas Businessman H. Ross Perot for his "bold imagination, pioneering spirit and dynamic leadership," Charles left for California. Despite his princely welcome...
...official at the American Cancer Society, explained that the excitement in medical circles is for the prospects rather than the accomplishments of IL-2 and other immunological approaches. The results reported last week were a promising opening shot on a new part of the cancer battlefield. Says Rauscher: "We didn't see such results in most of the early chemotherapeutic drugs" two decades ago. But cancer experts unanimously emphasize that the new treatment is nowhere close to being a cure. "We have patients; we have responses," said Rosenberg. "But we're not yet where we want...
...this 800-page work, fictional characters and historical ones appear together, past, present and future mingle as Fuentes narrates the birth of the New World. The novel focuses on the beginning of Latin American history when two worlds are brought together by Columbus: that of Spain, already a battlefield of the Arabic, Jewish and Roman cultures, and that of America with its native populations. "Terra Nostra" represents knowledge through imagination--a knowledge that cannot be found in the history books...
...School tenure process is, some say, the major battlefield of the political split. And with the dearth of appointments of professors from other law schools in the past five years, attention has focused on the junior faculty...
...Washington became increasingly fed up with the DIVAD's problems, Weinberger last year ordered a $54 million series of battlefield-condition tests. Congress then authorized money to keep the program alive but with a caveat: the funds would be released only if Weinberger certified that the gun "meets or exceeds the performance specifications of its contract." The tests were monitored by the Pentagon's new Operational Test and Evaluation Office, mandated by Congress in 1983 to serve as an independent watchdog. The results were abysmal. Said OT&E Director Jack Krings last week: "As tested, the Sergeant York...