Word: koch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judge to help me." Instead, at the sentencing last week of Hanson's landlord, Acting Justice Jeffrey Atlas blasted Hanson and her attorney for publicly criticizing his handling of the trial. That caused Hanson to burst into tears and inspired a storm of outrage from editorialists and Mayor Edward Koch. "How many times must a victim be victimized?" he asked...
Later, in April, scientists at Stanford and IBM announced that they had made thin films of the new substances, important for computer applications. The spotlight then shifted to IBM Researchers Robert Laibowitz and Roger Koch, who reported that they had made their own thin film into a working gadget called a SQUID (for superconducting quantum interference device). Such tools are already used in low-temperature versions to measure extremely faint magnetic fields. They are also employed by physicists in the search for elusive gravity waves and magnetic monopoles, predicted by some theories but not yet observed. Medical researchers use SQUIDs...
...good news for New Yorkers, Mayor Edward Koch said last week: taxes were being reduced, and the police department was being enlarged. "But the single thing people will care about," he added, "is that the pandas have come to town." How right he was. Last Thursday morning, as a gong was sounded and a comely female named Yong Yong waddled into her enclosure at the Bronx Zoo, New York City was gripped with that well-known but incurable fever: pandamania...
...Forever and Ever) go home at the end of October -- they are on loan from the Peking Zoo for only six months -- an estimated 2 million people (2,000 an hour) will have seen and no doubt fallen in love with them. "There's something special about pandas," says Koch. "They bring people back to their childhood...
After raising some $8 million and mapping out a detailed plan for low-cost construction, Nehemiah's sponsors went looking for additional help from city hall. When New York Mayor Ed Koch pleaded poverty, the group won the day by pointing to the support that the project had already garnered. Recalls Roman Catholic Bishop Francis Mugavero: "I said to the mayor, 'I would suggest that you steal the money, and I will absolve you.' " Laughing, Koch finally responded...