Word: berkeley
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Hardly anyone expects Papandreou to do that. But if the Harvard-educated economist and former Berkeley professor has a proven track record for anything in politics, it is for mercurial gestures. A onetime U.S. citizen who reverted to Greek citizenship in 1964, he seems to have thrived during his first term on ruffling feathers among the Western allies. The exponent of a nebulous "Third Road to Socialism," Papandreou irked the Reagan Administration by dubbing the U.S. the "metropolis of imperialism." Even though Greece has been a NATO member since 1952, he opposed the alliance's decision to deploy cruise...
...sociologist also has an outstanding offer from the University of California at Berkeley, said Geoffrey Keppel, dean of social sciences there...
Skocpol's husband William, who is a physicist at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, is currently looking for job opportunities in the Cambridge and Berkeley areas, Skocpol said. There are no job possibilities for her husband in the Chicago area, she added...
...doors to a main campus building for three weeks in April. At Cornell, students set up a shanty town in the main quad, vowing to camp out until the university divests its South Africa related stock. Students temporarily occupied buildings at Tufts, Rutgers, and University of California at Berkeley, and on April 4 Berkeley called a "National Student Strike Day," asking students nationwide to boycott classes and conduct anti-apartheid protests...
...shaped like an ellipsoid no more than 1.9 billion miles long and almost a billion miles wide -- impressive by earthly standards but diminutive on a galactic scale and in relation to the tremendous amount of energy it emits. Concludes Astronomer Donald Backer of the University of California, Berkeley: "What we observe is a very bright, compact object that appears to be rather small by stellar dimensions. Yet it's radiating a lot of luminosity. There are many stellar objects in the galaxy that radiate this amount of energy, but this one is peculiar. None of the others are as compact...