Word: highlighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highlight of the rites was the unveiling at last of the radical keel that the Australians had kept carefully shrouded from view since their arrival in Newport last spring. Lexcen's design did not, as many pundits had said, sport a bulbous nose or a double trim tab. Its magic lay in the two one-ton deltoid wings drooping from the bottom of what, in effect, is a normal keel turned upside down; its trim tab is very narrow, however, with a strip of plastic fairing to make it even more effective. As Australia II had amply demonstrated...
Gordon Cooper, 56, the most flamboyant of the original seven, is now a conservative Encino, Calif., businessman who describes his second marriage in 1972 to Susan Taylor, now 38, as the highlight of his life. Besides spending five years as a vice president for research and development at Walter E. Disney Enterprises, Cooper has parlayed his technical expertise into a galaxy of ventures such as his own consulting firm and, currently, a corporation that will produce alcohol fuel...
...highlight of the conference, however, was a rare joint appearance by Watson and Crick. Both looked appropriately oracular: Watson with his aureole of thinning hair, Crick with a rim of silver. Still, there were flashes of the brash biochemists who had once electrified the scientific world. Watson displayed the pointed wit that he employed so deftly in his gossipy, irreverent 1968 history, The Double Helix (it began with the line "I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood...
...tries to fulfill this promise by devoting as much as 40% of its daily general-service programming to educational purposes: lessons in calligraphy, the guitar, economics, political science, English, French, German and Russian. News takes up a considerable 35% of general programming, entertainment only 24%. One recent highlight: The Silk Road, a multimilliondollar, 30-hour epic that explores contemporary life along the ancient Chinese and Central Asian routes followed by the silk caravans. NHK's second channel is dedicated to education and often works in tandem with the nation's primary schools. It also offers Shakespeare, symphonic music...
...said he will send some education briefing materials along with certain questions in advance, so that more participants will arrive with well thought-out opinions on how universities can help highlight public education problems and make improvements...