Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasons why Rieke, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, is worrying. She's been planning for this night for most of a year. Her invitation was an intriguing one: "If you want to see some real white-knuckle astronomy, be out here on the 14th." Astronomy isn't normally considered as nerve-racking a profession as, say, commodities trading or the high wire. This is a mistake. There is great tension, and it comes from scarcity. The mountains around Tucson, the "astronomy capital of the world," may bristle with telescopes, but they are mighty rare...
...including button, snap or cutaway Windsor collars, as well as dobby weaves, textured herringbones and jacquards. Among the latest variations are snowy shirts with thin, widely spaced purple or teal stripes. Says Barbara Kirk, a men's-furnishings buyer for the Seattle-based Nordstom stores: "A plain white shirt isn't just a plain white shirt anymore." Nor is it cheap: at Wilkes Bashford, the price can reach $235 for a French-cuff Charvet shirt, made of Sea Island cotton and imported from Paris...
...music, says Rolling Stone Music Editor David Wild: "People are responding negatively to his image and to the hype. The category he should have won is 'worst image' or 'least understood.' " Even so, Jackson's album has sold 4 million copies and spawned three Top Ten singles, which isn't half...
...coach tried a different approach. "Get mad," she said. "Can't you get mad?" Finally Dukakis had had enough. The voters, he declared, would have to take him as he is. "Look, I'm not Mario," he said defensively, referring to New York's demonstrative Governor Cuomo. "This just isn...
...thought it really identified one of the real defects of decentralization," says Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein, who is chairman of the Core Curriculum subcommittee on Social Analysis. "Except for the Core, there isn't very much communal discussion of academic matters...