Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences awarded the $190,000 prize jointly to Sheldon L. Glashow, professor of Physics; Steven Weinberg, Higgins Professor of Physics; and Abdus Salam, director of the Italian-based International Center for Theoretical Physics and professor of physics at the London Imperial College of Sciences and Technology...
When he visited Washington in 1969 for President Eisenhower's funeral, he was the center of attention. At the reception tendered by Nixon, other heads of government and Senators who usually proclaimed their antipathy to authoritarian generals crowded around him. One had the sense that if he moved to a window, the center of gravity might shift, and the whole room might tilt everybody into the garden...
...Miller's first-floor suite at the Inter-continental Hotel to get his assurances that the dollar would be defended. Reported TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer: "An undercurrent of fear and confusion about what has been happening on the money markets ran through the corridors of the modern Sava Center, where the I.M.F. sessions were held. Cecil de Strycker, governor of Belgium's central bank, confided: 'The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain any more.' Many delegates joined in what Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, aptly described...
This blend of new and old was apparent at the Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, where we saw mammoth carp that had been raised from tiny fry in the center's ponds. One innovation: the use of female hormones to encourage spawning. But the biologists there also adhered to the Maoist maxim to "change wastes into treasures and turn harmful into beneficial." They feed the fish animal and even human wastes (after fermentation to kill fecal parasites). Elsewhere, the Chinese are introducing "digesters" (small tanks) that convert biological wastes into methane gas, which in turn powers electrical generators...
...Pirates added two more in the seventh. Omar Moreno singled, and seampered to second on an errant pickoff attempt. Moments later, his sprint proved unnecessary when Tim Foli tripled to left-center. Foli then trotted home on a Dave Parker double, for a 4-1 lead...