Word: contactable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suddenly, the beeps stopped coming. Soviet scientists last week lost track of one of their nation's most highly touted space projects: Phobos 2, an unmanned craft launched last July to dispatch two landing probes onto the Martian moon Phobos. Repeated attempts to re-establish contact were fruitless. A companion vessel had been lost in space last August. The two spacecraft were part of the longtime Soviet push to explore Mars, an effort that Moscow has several times invited the U.S. to join. Although Phobos 2 had managed to send back information on the Martian atmosphere, magnetic field and environment...
...follows the European kings' portraits shows the influence Western Europe had on this Eurasian art. While a great many of the geometric patterns and bright colors which distinguish Islamic art are still present, it is evident through the number of scenes of daily life that the Ottoman world's contact with Europe had influenced its culture. Although many of the watercolors do accompany religious texts, they show scenes of bridal gowns, gardeners and poets as well as spiritual situations...
Other pieces show the Turkish empire's contact with Asia. In "Dragon in Vegetation," there is calligraphy similar to that used for Chinese characters, and the trees and plants are elongated, similar to the mythical forests prevalent in Chinese art and literature...
Sixteen professors from both Michigan andPrinceton, and 12 from Columbia, signed thestatement. Law attributed the relative lack ofsupport from Harvard professors to "short notice"and the absence of a contact at the University. "Iwas a little disappointed in Harvard," she said...
Perry's first contact with UNLV was in the spring of 1986, when he told the university's coaches that Lloyd Daniels, considered by many the top high school player in New York City, was interested in going to the school. Daniels was then an 18-year-old high school dropout who had attended five different high schools in three states. Each school had availed itself of his talents on the court but never managed to solve his profound reading problems...