Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About a year ago, a retired school teacher and amateur astronomer in England sighted an object in the sky traveling toward Earth. He immediatley contacted Brian Marsden, director of the Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams located near the Quad, and within hours, thousands of astronomers across the globe had received descriptions of the sighting...
...last week's oil slide reach back to midsummer. Buyers started balking at official prices at a time of continuing glut. The Saudis helped restore temporary calm by keeping their production low. As an added measure, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi Arabian Oil Minister, jetted around the globe to such non-OPEC countries as Egypt, Malaysia and Mexico, urging those governments to restrain from giving discounts or increasing production...
...could call up and say, 'What's going on here?' But that I think I should not do. I've offered my help, and sent the Sunday edition of the Boston Globe with the Real Estate section." Guthke says. Aside from these subtle gestures, he adds, his hands are tied...
...Writers may understand writing in a less esoteric way than academics." said Pelicia Lamport, who writes the honorous "Muse of the Week in Review" column about current events for the Boston Sunday Globe. As a result, a writer is often more empathetic to students with writing problems than a professor who is not an active writer, Lamport said...
...another Expos teacher who doubles as a humourist for the Globe, Sanford Kreisberg, joked that he had learned "to be very kind to less talented students-because ten years from now they may be your editor...