Word: jousting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most likely thing that would happen is youmight print an excerpt of it mentioning it's anissue at Harvard," Schauer said. "I don't know ifit would be a good thing for us to take a positionor not, because as an alumni club we're not hereto joust with the school. The next president mightfeel differently...
...international team of scientists based in Germany today revealed the creation of an as-yet unnamed element by bombarding lead and nickel atoms in an accelerator -- bringing the periodic table's total to 110. The creation of this new man-made element took ten years and became a competitive joust between the group based in Germany -- which eventually won -- and American scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, working with Russian colleagues at a research center in Dubna, Russia. Now comes the hard part: finding an appropriate name.Post your opinion on theScience & Technologybulletin board...
Today Abouhalima and three colleagues sit quietly in Courtroom 318 in downtown Manhattan, six blocks from the Twin Towers, watching intently as their lawyers and the prosecutors joust over the selection of jurors. So prominent is the case that U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy rounded up 5,000 citizens in his effort to assemble an unbiased jury -- 10 times the number called for last year's sensational trial of Mob chieftain John Gotti. Opening arguments in the bombing case are expected to begin next week. The trial will probably take three to four months, all the while under heavy security...
Living in a confining, rented apartment in Martha's Vineyard, Madeleine and her roommate, Fergus, joust with each other intellectually and sexually after drinking a hallucinogenic tea that Fergus purchases from a street vendor. Madeleine finds frustrations in her paltry job, over-bearing summer theatre director and contradictory impulses towards flirting and serious involvement. In a series of bizarre dreams, she draws in Fergus and other characters from her closed world. In his own dreams involving a mysterious dancer, Fergus explores his frustration in his bisexuality, his inability to finish his book, and his exhiliratingly passionate nature...
...latest Don Quixote to joust with the Rice Curtain, Japan's barrier to offshore grain imports, is Osaka's Fujio Matsumoto. His 44 Sushi Boy restaurants serve the popular dish at bargain prices. Matsumoto wants to cut charges further by importing 100,000 pieces of frozen sushi from California, wrapped in cheap American rice. The government must decide whether the entree is a creation unto itself, allowing it to circumvent the strict trade barrier, or a sly combination of raw fish and the very much forbidden U.S. rice. Only then will it be clear if Sushi Boy will succeed where...