Word: breedings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then there have been six other reputable surveys, the latest just published by the Journal of American History. Hundreds of questions were sent to 1,997 historians by Robert K. Murray and Tim H. Blessing of Pennsylvania State University. Answers from 846 historians, a good return from this cantankerous breed, arrived in time for the first computer deadline, and the emerging data provided not only a fascinating profile of greatness, or lack of it, but an intriguing look at those who set the rankings...
...breed of Japanese women graduates from leading universities are shunning traditional, largely clerical roles in Japanese companies for foreign firms that acknowledge their ability and offer more pay and promotion hopes. "The educated women of Japan are still an unused resource in the professions," says Owen Erickson, senior vice president and general manager of Bank of America in Tokyo, which hires about 25 female college graduates a year...
Monitoring the experiments is a new breed of scientist-astronauts called payload specialists. On Spacelab's maiden voyage, they are Ulf Merbold, 42, a West German physicist whose specialty is the behavior of materials at low temperatures, and Byron Lichtenberg, 35, a biomedical engineer from M.I.T. and Brown University with a particular interest in solving the problem of motion sickness that has afflicted so many astronauts...
...easy to understand Danny's apprehension of his son's choice of position. Kickers are an unusual breed. They play the individual role in a team sport. They fight against themselves as often as the other team...
...their confessions are even partially true, Lucas and Toole could be textbook examples of a new breed of killer: the serial murderer, whose victims are numerous and whose crimes are geographically far-flung and committed over a period of many years. The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that serial murderers are behind some 35 death sprees currently under investigation. Alfred Regnery, administrator of the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, estimates that of the 21,000 murders committed in the U.S. last year, several thousand can be attributed to this kind of psychopath. "The serial murderer doesn...