Word: clues
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Undeterred, Medvedev began burrowing through open Soviet scientific journals. There he found more than 100 articles discussing the effects of what was called "artificial" radioactive contamination of lakes, fields and forests. Reading the papers closely, he found clue after clue revealing that the contamination had been neither artificial nor controlled. In 1979, researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee noticed that the names of about 30 small towns in the region had disappeared from Soviet maps, and that an elaborate system of canals had been built, presumably to bypass miles of contaminated river valley...
...avoid end-of-April testing madness, Core policymakers could take a clue from the scheduling of the data interpretation part of the QRR. Computer tests should be scheduled in mandatory sessions for all freshmen at the beginning of the year. Exams could begin in October so that students will have had plenty of opportunity to attend mini-courses and work with the computers...
...answer from a man moving fleets and armies, contemplating settlements on the planet Mars, spending a trillion dollars a year. Yet therein may lie an overlooked clue about his leadership. He has never taken power for granted. Never shown arrogance in his position, never preened personally in public, always acted--whether he was right or clearly wrong--in the name of the American people. Reagan does not remove his coat in the Oval Office out of deference to the nation's tradition...
...Most of us don't have a clue about South Africa. We were depending on Professor Heimert for information," said committee member and Lecturer at the School of Public Health Richard A. Cash...
Leaders of the People's Republic of China obviously knew something was up when Henry Kissinger sought to arrange his now famous secret mission to Peking in 1971. That signal, however, was not their first clue that the U.S. was interested in improving relations with a Communist regime it had refused to recognize for more than two decades. Larry Wu-Tai Chin, 63, a retired CIA analyst on trial as a spy for China, last week testified that in 1970 he had passed to Peking a document containing a secret message from Richard Nixon to Congress outlining his intention...