Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Intern had already read the Sunday Times, the Sunday Globe and the Phoenix, which didn't leave him much more to do on a sunny Sunday morning. The Intern and his companion were sitting in a cafe where everybody was unnaturally quiet. It was an outdoor cafe and there were tiny birds in the plants. The Intern scanned the stack of papers at his feet and thought about doing the crossword puzzle. Eugene T. Maleska wanted him to guess what one-sixth of a drachma was in Roman numerals, but the Intern had little desire to. The Intern ordered another...
Attention was again focused on the MCZ when the Boston Globe reported on Sunday that the University's losses exceeded $500.000 and that the losses may have resulted from a highly organized theft plot. The story was subsequently aired by several area radio and television news services...
...Edward Powers, associate general counsel for the University, said he "couldn't understand why the Globe would basically reprint an article they ran a year ago." The Globe, along with other local newspapers, covered the losses when they were first reported a year and a half...
Harvard has never released an official estimate as to the extent of the MCZ losses -- which included original works by John J. and John W. Audubon. Louis Agassiz, and George Buffon--but the Globe reported that an appraisal commissioned by the paper had set the figure at more than $500.000. The study was conducted from lists of books the University had reported missing...
...Persian Gulf oilfields, which supply 40% of the free world's imported petroleum. When the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan raised fears of a move by the U.S.S.R. toward the gulf, Carter announced plans to create a force that could quickly be dispatched to trouble spots halfway around the globe...