Word: blow
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...NIMH that as far as they knew, the research never took place; the only subjects Breuning was officially authorized to study at the time were goldfish and rats. How was the psychologist able to persuade others to lend their names to his work? Says Thomas Gualtieri, who helped blow the whistle on Breuning: "He would come up with marvelous data that would corroborate everything you had ever written. It was an excellent way of co-opting co-authors...
Racial conflict was also behind an attempted skyjacking in Fiji last week. An Indian airport worker, Amzad Ali, took over an Air New Zealand 747 that was making a stopover between Tokyo and Auckland, New Zealand. Armed with dynamite and a knife, he threatened to blow up the aircraft unless all ousted government leaders were released. Ali allowed the 105 passengers and 23 crew members to disembark but held captive the captain, the first officer and the | flight engineer. After six tense hours, the flight engineer ended the siege by hitting the hijacker over the head with a bottle...
...Chronology began as a diversion, when various congressional committees asked Armstrong to gather documents about the contras. The group's research, along with news accounts, congressional investigations and the Tower commission report, were incorporated into a blow-by-blow narrative. The Archive's aggressive use of the Freedom of Information Act already has the Administration on guard. Now, when Justice Department employees get a request from Armstrong, they are instructed to call a special agency phone number before supplying details...
Faculty members said yesterday that Bok's action threatens to decrease the historic independence of the Law School. In addition several professors said the decision was a blow to academic freedom because it was based on ideological rather than scholarly grounds...
While civil rights activists said the Princetondecision represents a blow against all-maleundergraduate clubs, they added that the Harvardfinal clubs may not qualify as publicaccommodations under Massachusetts law, so itcould, be difficult to bring a similar suitagainst them...