Word: majored
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Although CERN's staff tries to be diplomatic about competition with the U.S. in particle physics, there is little doubt that the LEP has given the Europeans a major advantage. "I don't think of science as a football game," says Ugo Amaldi, who oversees one of the LEP's detectors. "But if you look at the number of American scientists coming here, it is clear that our way of doing things is attracting interest...
...Most major suitmakers are in the covered-up swim. Designers Adrienne Vittadini and Randolph Duke are among those who have swirled out skirted suits, while Norma Kamali recalls the 1940s with long-line swimwear featuring elegant drapery. Former Hollywood star Esther Williams has lent her name to a line of classic one-piece suits reminiscent of her costumes in films like Neptune's Daughter. Using a bit of verbal camouflage, Body Glove Apparel, a California outfit, says its line is "cut for the Midwestern frame," and Sandcastle is doing well with a collection intended to "minimize common figure problems like...
...passion to merge has been fueled by the desire of major firms to become global competitors. "The cost of doing business is much greater today than it was 15 years ago," says William Grollman, professor of accounting at Fordham University's Graduate School of Business. "Mergers reduce these costs and eliminate a competitor...
...days at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Bump again! Marsalis talked to Roberts about the roots of jazz, challenged him intellectually, encouraged him to develop a philosophy: "Feeling is not fact." By senior year Marsalis invited Roberts to play a few gigs. Florida State promptly lost a promising music major...
...giving no pain to his patient, long-suffering wife? Answers eventually arrive, but not before some spirited narrative interludes: vivid scenes of hunting and "sticking" swordfish on the high seas, a sexual encounter that turns into an extended bout of mud wrestling, a hair-raising attempt to outsail a major hurricane...