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...award was an indirect tribute to U.N. Secretary-General Javiar Perez de Cuellar. Perez de Cuellar was instrumental in mediating the Iran-Iraqcease fire, initiating the Soviet withdrawal fromAfghanistan and promoting peace talks in southwestAfrica...
...Senate and for Vice President. (If elected to both offices, he will resign his Senate seat.) He may spend as much as $10 million promoting his senatorial candidacy. That sum will not count against the legal limits on presidential campaign spending, but inevitably Dukakis will get at least some indirect benefit from his running mate's well-financed self-promotion...
Most recent breakthroughs in remote sensing came from satellites launched in the late 1970s. NASA's Seasat 1, Tiros N and Nimbus 7 satellites took indirect measurements of ocean conditions, such as surface wind speed and direction, by gathering data on radiation scattered by waves. At first, scientists had to correct their data for errors introduced by everything from sunspot activity to changes in the ozone levels of the upper atmosphere. "It wasn't just getting bigger computers, better instruments, better physics or better computer languages," says Robert Evans, a physicist at the University of Miami's Remote Sensing Laboratory...
...contends. "They think it's a lot of hypochondriac women complaining all the time. Those are people who don't work with computers all day." Researchers believe that some of the visual problems stem from too much glare on the screen, which can be alleviated with filters and indirect lighting...
...complain that Harvard makes excessive demands on city residents because while it gives many of them jobs, it also raises the cost of living in Cambridge. Even those city officials who have bitterly criticized the University concede that Harvard contributes prestige and jobs to the community, as well as indirect economic boosts that have grown from practical applications of its research...