Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bunyavanich was nominated for the award by Michele N. Holbrook, assistant professor of biology. Bunyavanich traveled with Holbrook to Chile this past summer on a research partnership through the Radcliffe Research Partnership Program. They did research on a plant named nolanamollis, a desert shrub which grows in northern Chile...
...sure didn't look that way in 1989, after Lincoln bit the desert dust and Keating faced a series of highly publicized trials. Prosecutors vilified him as a high-living, white-collar sociopath, and he was convicted on no less than 90 federal and state counts of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy. The main charges: that he directed the sale of fraudulently marketed junk bonds to tens of thousands of Lincoln customers and that he orchestrated a series of sham real estate transactions to inflate Lincoln's profits. Packed off to prison in handcuffs and chains under the glare...
...rainy night, and Gates is bombing around in his dark blue Lexus. He loves fast cars. When Microsoft was based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in its early years, he bought a Porsche 911 and used to race it in the desert; Paul Allen had to bail him out of jail after one midnight escapade. He got three speeding tickets--two from the same cop who was trailing him--just on the drive from Albuquerque the weekend he moved Microsoft to Seattle. Later he bought a Porsche 930 Turbo he called the "rocket," then a Mercedes, a Jaguar...
...Bring 'Em Back!" the New York Post shouted on page one. Columnist Jack Newfield, who ranks Walter O'Malley as the third worst person of this century behind Hitler and Stalin, said the decision to sell could mean an end to what he called "40 years lost in the desert." Brooklyn borough president Howard Golden sent letters to Governor George Pataki and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani asking them to set up a commission to lure the team back. Despite the delirium, cold reality soon set in when city officials reminded everyone that the Mets have a right to block any team...
...After wandering for a quarter of a century in the trackless desert of academic administration, I had resolved to spend my remaining active years doing what I first came to Harvard to do--reading, thinking, and writing about problems of abiding interest," Bok writes in his preface...