Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...books. But the allure of the English language, and of the English poetry recited aloud in his classrooms, came tempered with a sense of exclusion from white British culture, the resentment felt by a subject of an alien, occupying power. In one of his early poems, he pondered his faraway African heritage and asked...
Controversial filmmaker Spike Lee will be traveling to faraway Ithica, N.Y. later this month to deliver a lecture at Cornell University...
...Parents historically have been less inclined to send their daughter to expensive and faraway schools than they have their sons," Schor said...
Picking individual stocks in faraway places is not for the fainthearted, but with exotic stocks packaged in funds, an investor undeterred by transaction costs can even daydream of multiplying his gains by surfing around the world, taking a short, profitable ride on each cresting wave. All he needs is a globe, a pin and some strong hunches. In the '90s even distant neighbors have no trouble keeping up with the Dow Joneses...
...team of three astronomers in Britain claims to have spotted solid evidence of a faraway world. Writing in the British journal Nature, Andrew Lyne and colleagues at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank radio observatory report an object between 10 and 15 times the mass of the earth, orbiting a special kind of star called a pulsar that lies some 25,000 light- years (140 quadrillion miles) away...