Word: clues
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team of scientists attending last week's meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Baltimore may have unearthed an important clue to answering that question with the announcement that it has discovered the most distant galaxy yet seen by man. Designated 4C41.17, the galaxy is located some 15 billion light-years away (a single light-year is equal to approximately 6 trillion miles) -- about 90% of the distance from the earth to the visible limits of the universe...
Three weeks after terrorists attacked the Greek excursion vessel City of Poros, killing nine people and wounding 98, the identity and motivation of the attackers remain unknown. But last week a clue emerged when Greek police disclosed that some of the weapons used in the Poros shootings were originally sold to the Libyan army...
...late Braque lies in this conjuncture of the explicit and the poetic. The green surface of The Billiard Table, 1945, folding in the middle, seems to be foundering in the aqueous gray and olive planes of the room like a sinking ship. Perhaps there is a ghost of a clue in the barely visible lettering on the wall, part of a cafe sign reminding patrons of the law against public drunkenness. But between the elements of the painting there is a continuous jostling, circling and reflection, a sense of the vitality of form in every particular, that puts metaphoric reflection...
...prove there was an exchange of money for secret information, it will be a classic example of the most spectacular part of the Ill Wind mess. One clue to the kind of information often sought: FBI agents searched the Washington office of William Tallia, vice president of Pratt & Whitney, on the authority of a search warrant alleging that the company had copies of sensitive documents filed with the Pentagon by archcompetitor General Electric. Both companies were selling engines for the Air Force F-18 fighter and the Navy's V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft...
...That was a nightmare," he says. "I had no clue how to study. I just hated...