Word: liquidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked on a volunteer basis until 1946 when he began to keep official NCAA statistics of Crimson football. By that time,' though, he had become a researcher in ultra-low temperature physics at MIT. Cavileer worked on a team that developed a machine which produces liquid helium, an important breakthrough in the field...
...type of loan that Japan wants to extend to China could be repaid partly in the most liquid of China's assets, oil. The trouble with this scheme is that Chinese oil is waxy, heavy and, given its low quality, overpriced. Says the president of one Japanese oil company: "The men in the industry are in an angry mood. They were never consulted. They were simply told they would have to pay the price for Japan-China trade and finance Japanese exports by buying Chinese...
...behavior of materials at extremely low temperatures. In the early 1930s, while working at Britain's Cambridge University, the young Russian won international acclaim for creating for the first time a device for liquefying helium in large quantities. That was no small feat, because helium does not become liquid until its temperature has been reduced to about 4° above absolute zero. When Kapitsa returned to the Soviet Union for a visit in 1934, Stalin refused to let him leave again-on the ground that he was too precious a commodity to be allowed abroad. Continuing his experiments...
Sandwiched between the working sessions, the black-tie dinners and dances, the council members hold informal press conferences-sometimes too informal. For example, David Packard, chairman of Hewlett-Packard, who enjoys the hostelry's liquid assets, made an expletive re-pleted attack on Energy Czar James Schlesinger 18 months ago that left his colleagues goggle-eyed...
...explanation, OAPEC spokesmen argued that a sizable increase was warranted because "persistent erosion" of the dollar and inflation in the developed countries had cut the real price of a liquid barrel of oil almost by half since 1973. Some other delegates also stressed Arab pique at the Camp David agreement. Iraqi Oil Minister Tayeh Abdul-Karim blasted it as "a policy of surrender" and made clear that he thought the Saudi policy of "moderation" on oil prices had done nothing to advance the Arab cause in the Middle East peace negotiations. Saudi Representative Abdul Hadi Taher replied bluntly that Middle...