Word: discoverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The gravel-voiced Jones has none of the polish of his machines. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and ill-fitting pants, gulps coffee, chain-smokes Pall Malls and often totes a Colt .45. "When I was broke, I was crazy; now that I am rich, I am eccentric," he declares...
She underestimates her man. Charley's salient virtue is loyalty, and once committed to her, he will stop at nothing short of marriage. Nor does she understand that he is not as dumb as Nicholson funnily, bravely makes him look. Charley's shrewdness is on a slow-burning fuse, but...
"I throw seeds to the students," says Vosgerchian, who taught two very popular music courses in the Core Curriculum this year. In return, she looks for students to provide some imaginative input. "I am excited by the students' desire to discover."
This doesn't mean that Harvard, or any other university, imposes an ideology from above. Instead, we create a kind of intellectual pressure cooker--a "peer pressure cooker." Thoughts that don't "fit" are treated with laughter or condescension If you've never been ridiculed by your friends before, try...
Much of the agency's work focuses on accounting. Officials scan the records of nuclear plants to determine whether all the radioactive material received is either properly stored and used or accounted for as waste. The inspectors also check film from tamper-proof cameras installed at strategic locations in nuclear...