Word: clue
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...justify its operation, and power found that it couldn’t. For 21 days, the people who thought they could run this place without regard for students, for workers, for faculty, for alumni and for the Cambridge-area community—those people did not have a clue what to do. For 21 days it was not business as usual in the halls of power. We should have no illusions: this sit-in was all about coercion. We all decided that we would not go along with the Corporation’s coercive power any more, that we would...
...didn’t know anyone in the institution. I didn’t have a clue who to choose,” he explains...
...Benito's fate may hold a clue to what happened to the U.S. last week at the United Nations, although the humiliation was hardly as sharp and the result may turn out to be quite the opposite from the one intended by those who engineered the slap-down. That, of course, would be the Europeans, whose quiet withdrawal of their traditional support for Washington facilitated a victory for China and Cuba?s campaign to keep the U.S. off the commission...
...from dinosaurs--or may even be dinosaurs, the only living branch of the family that ruled the earth eons ago--has got stronger and stronger since paleontologists first started taking it seriously a couple of decades ago. Remarkable similarities in bone structure between dinos and birds were the first clue. Then came evidence, thanks to a series of astonishing discoveries in China's Liaoning province over the past five years, that some dinosaurs may have borne feathers. But a few scientists still argued that the link was weak; the bone similarities could be a coincidence, they said. And maybe those...
...have such problems, right? Turns out many of us do. The number of people holding employee stock options is exploding, up 10-fold to 10 million since 1992. And most option holders are in non-tech industries, where the programs are so new that many recipients haven't a clue how to manage this asset...