Word: beams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THAT WARM SEASON WHEN PARENTS BEAM AND PROMising students receive academic prizes. Our magazine and two cooperating corporations are pleased to join in the festivities again this spring. More than 800 students entered the annual TIME Education Program (TEP) contests, and the 12 winners received a total of $31,500 in scholarships. In the high school essay contest, co- sponsored by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., the grand prize went to Michele Host of Badger Union High, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. She wrote a moving tribute to her mother, who taught her that "learning begins in the home, and with...
Janet M. Blazek '93 of Eliot House wondered how her twin sister Joyce won with a guess that was 40 beam off the mark...
...wish to close with a quotation from Joseph Beam, a black gay writer who died of AIDS...
...product of a thin, 65-ft. plastic mirror mounted on the unmanned Russian spacecraft Progress, which, from its 225-mile-high perch, reflected light on a sleeping Europe. The umbrella-like mirror, called Banner, did not quite turn night into day, but it did project a weak 2 1/2-mile-wide beam that danced across the Continent for six minutes. A French observer described the flashing pulse of light as "luminous diamonds following one another across...
...only it were so. Just when he wanted to focus "like a laser beam" on the economy, Clinton was sidetracked for five days by a once obscure campaign promise to lift the nearly 50-year-old ban on gays in the military. No sooner had Clinton emerged from the embarrassing miscalculation about Zoe Baird than he found himself in an even stickier political quagmire. After promising in his Inaugural Address to end an era of "deadlock and drift," Clinton was suddenly at war with the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as members of his own party in Congress. Worse...