Word: knolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very interested in seeing proposals tosee more formal and articulated links between whatgoes on in Expos and other courses," saysProfessor of Biology Andrew H. Knoll, who chairsOrganismic and Evolutionary Biology...
...fired the shots and from where. Still, though he had talked a lot about the Big Guys behind the plot -- intelligence agencies, the military-industrial complex and the like -- he had never publicly named the name of the man he believed fired the fatal head shot from the grassy knoll...
Next to confess was Robert Easterling, a Mississippi ex-con who told journalist Henry Hurt in 1985 that he killed Kennedy on behalf of Fidel Castro. And then, in 1989, there was the son of a Dallas policeman who pushed his own (now dead) father forward as the grassy-knoll assassin, introducing some curious confessional documentation he claimed to have found in an attic. (The credibility problem of assassination buffs has not been enhanced by the double standard with which they seem to accept indiscriminately every self-proclaimed assassin or grassy-knoll eyewitness who comes forward, but tear to shreds...
Detroit's prolonged crisis comes at a time when even critics concede that U.S. autos are gradually catching up to Japanese standards. "American cars have improved tremendously in the past 10 years," says Robert Knoll, director of the auto test division of Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports magazine. He notes that certain American models, such as the four-cylinder Plymouth Acclaim-Dodge Spirit twins or the full-size Buick LeSabre, are on a par with average Japanese quality. Yet Detroit, overall, "still has a ways to go, because the Japanese keep improving too," he says. For example, Consumer Reports...
...right emblem for this show. Religious and national myths are made, not born; their depiction in art involves much staging, construction and editing, under the eye of cultural agreement. Whatever the crucifixion of a Jew on a knoll 2,000 years ago looked like, it wasn't Tintoretto. And the American West of the 19th century was rarely what American artists set out to make it seem...