Word: langs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honesty, I'd much rather prefer avoiding all contact with the American League," he said. "George Steinbrenner probably is the only person in this country who's a bigger asshole than Serge Lang...
...cost Herman $250,000 when he indignantly settled out of court in 1966. Ten years later, former Beatle George Harrison was nicked for $400,000 when a judge ruled that the 1970 number My Sweet Lord ("Hare Krishna") closely resembled the Chiffons' 1963 single He's So Fine ("Doo lang, doo lang, doo lang"). And in 1983 a Chicago jury ruled that the Bee Gees' How Deep Is Your Love (1977) was a little too deeply influenced by a 1975 ditty called Let It End, by Ronald Selle...
...finally did something. At a conference in Montreal sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program, 24 countries signed a milestone accord that promised to halve production and use of ozone-destroying chemicals by 1999. "There has never been an agreement like this on a global scale," exulted Winfried Lang of Austria, chairman of the conference. Said Lee Thomas, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: "The signing shows an unprecedented degree of cooperation among nations of the world in balancing economic development and environmental protection...
...reflected lights of Panama City dance impishly on the waters of the bay as Lucho Azcarraga and his band play Auld Lang Syne at Fred Cotton's farewell party on the grounds of the Amador Officer's Club. There are more than 250 guests, nearly all of them middle-aged and conspicuously American, wearing colorful shirts and dresses, Hawaiian leis draped around their necks. Azcarraga's pudgy fingers are surprisingly agile on the organ keyboard as he pumps out the Scottish farewell. But then they should be. Although he is over 70, he plays this tune quite often. Most...
...physical scientists are totally objective in their work. Obviously, you have not noticed how physicists mold their positions on the feasibility of President Reagan's Star Wars program to correlate with their political ideologies. While the scientific merit of Political Scientist Samuel Huntington's work is debatable, Mathematician Serge Lang's comments on that work reveal considerable ignorance about the nature of science. This is not surprising. Though mathematics is the language of science, it is not a science...