Word: fieldings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVERY non-mathematical field in the University has its own set of vague generalities. For instance...
...fifth, Princeton received a huge break. With runners on first and third, freshman Vicki Pisowicz grounded a ball down the third base line. The ball hit third base and bounded into left field, scoring two Tigers. The 3-0 lead was looming large...
Neither Pons nor Fleischmann would have ranked high on anyone's list of scientists likely to revolutionize physics, although both are respected researchers in the field of electrochemistry, the study of how chemical reactions behave in the presence of an electric field. In retrospect, though, their backgrounds were quirky enough to suggest that almost anything was possible. Pons, in particular, had an unorthodox professional history. A native North Carolinian, Pons, 46, dropped out of graduate school at the University of Michigan in 1967, just a few months shy of getting a Ph.D. in chemistry. "Jobs for Ph.D. chemists were paying...
...worked with him at the University of Newcastle, calls him a man of "great ideas," and Roger Parsons, head of the chemistry department at Southampton, describes Fleischmann as "excitable in the sense that he gets very enthusiastic about ideas. He is a man full of ideas across a wide field and not necessarily connected to his main research...
Jordan's stability is crucial to countries on both sides of the Arab-Israeli dispute. The King has brought in Field Marshal Sharif Zaid bin Shaker to oversee preparations for parliamentary elections in the near future, which should bring a degree of democracy to a largely authoritarian land. But whatever path the new government takes, the people face several more years of austerity. "Sooner or later, Jordanians will have to adjust to a lower standard of living," admitted a top adviser to the King. "There's no other...