Word: laden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...October, Rudenstine will be officially installed as president in an elaborate and tradition-laden University ceremony. The immediate transition, Bok says, is more straightforward...
Even if the rains do come, the sulfur-laden smoke and soot may make the soil too acidic for crops to grow. Considering the scale of these threats, it is surprising that organized efforts to gather information about the fires are only just getting under way. Last week a team of scientists sponsored by the Defense Nuclear Agency, the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society, among others, began their first flights to analyze the composition, density and persistence of the smoke. One important question: Does the smoke naturally repel water or, as El-Baz and some other scientists...
...West as America" free from this? By no means. Its tone is prosecutorial, and often unfairly so. The walls are laden with tendentious "educational" labels, seemingly aimed at 14-year-olds. The catalog essays are mostly better than this, but not always. Thus Julie Schimmel, writing of Charles Bird King's 1822 portrait of Omahaw and other Indian chiefs who visited Washington -- an image that could hardly be exceeded in straightforwardness and respect for the sitters -- claims that "they represent a race that could perhaps be persuaded by rational argument . . . to abandon tribal tradition." There is not a shred...
...thoughts they would never merely speak. Although the creators stress their sensitivity to the book's fans, they were not revisiting childhood pleasures of their own; most remembered the book dimly, and Norman had never read it at all. They took a free hand with the sprawling, surprise- laden plot to highlight its theme of two troubled children healing themselves as adult intervention offers no help, just hindrance...
...takeover force. In a deal that would give KKR a substantial interest in magazines, the firm led a partnership that included several former officers of the Macmillan publishing and information-services company in a tentative agreement to pay more than $600 million for nine U.S. publications owned by debt-laden media magnate Rupert Murdoch. The KKR group would acquire such titles as Seventeen, New York and the Daily Racing Form, but the deal would exclude Murdoch's flagship publication, TV Guide...