Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gerhard Neumaier, president of Buffalo's Ecology and Environment, Inc., participation in the mission was a last desperate attempt to break into a market that for four years had rebuffed him. A specialist in analyzing the environmental ramifications of projects ranging from dams to industrial parks, Neumaier in 1974 founded a Japanese subsidiary and spent $500,000 in a futile search for contracts. Says he: "We wouldn't have stayed all this time if we hadn't been encouraged by government bureaucrats who said, 'Be patient, you'll eventually succeed.' " Fed up with meaningless...
STOCKHOLM -- Two Americans and a Swiss won the Nobel Prize for medicine for their discovery of a method to break apart genetic material that may be an important step in the understanding of cancer and hereditary diseases...
Against UMass, MacMurray again got a break. The Minutemen sent only one man deep, and No. 98 punted low shots into the wind which rolled away from the lone back. There were no returns, a couple of long rolls and a 35.5-yard average that day for Harvard's punter. Low-trajectory kicks again carried him to a 33.2-yard average in the Colgate game...
...fullbacks, directed by Captain Jim Langton, controlled the midfield, rarely allowing Amherst to penetrate more than a few yards into Harvard's defensive end. More important, they consistently turned the Lord Jeffs' infrequent offensive thrusts around, converting them into fast-break outlet passes to streaking wings and halfbacks...
There are difficulties involved in being both mother and student, these women knew. But still, each woman emphasized how Harvard, or at least college, was one of the best things that had happened in their lives. For all four, it has been important to break out of the lives they were leading. And, as Katiti said, other women, other mothers, might benefit, as well: "Women aren't just 18 year olds. There are women out there in the community who have the ability, but are living in homes that they use as a sanctuary. It is easy to hide...