Word: max
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Max Hall, a local author who has documented the history of the Charles, said yesterday that most of the pollution stemmed from heavy industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
Though inconclusive, the French tests prompted the U.S. subsidiary of Sandoz, Ltd., the Swiss-based manufacturer of cyclosporine, to announce that it would soon begin tests of the drug in American AIDS patients. Said Max Link, who heads the subsidiary: "Only well-controlled, long-term investigations will answer the question of whether Sandimmun could play a role in the treatment of AIDS...
...want you to listen carefully," said Chief U.S. Negotiator Max Kampelman with a wide smile, "and I want you to listen with your constructive ear." Victor Karpov, his Soviet counterpart, smiled back, though somewhat less amiably. There was little likelihood of Karpov's attention wandering. He knew that Kampelman was about to unveil a sweeping new American proposal in response to the arms-control plan that the Soviets had tabled with much fanfare five weeks...
...dummy--he called the U.S. Post Office to ask how long it would take a first class letter mailed in Boston to reach Mass Hall. Even figuring that the postman would have to wade through Harvard's ivy, the post office told him it would take three days, max...
...fantastic! I can't conceive of it!" exclaimed Klaus von Klitzing last week. The inconceivable, however, has long been familiar territory to the Polish-born, 42-year-old director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, in Stuttgart, West Germany: the mind-boggling field of quantum mechanics is his special ground. This year, taking note of Von Klitzing's quantized Hall effect, an application of quantum theory's abstruse axioms to the more mundane field of commercial electronics, the Nobel Committee named him physics laureate. Said the boyish-looking father of three: "I've always wanted to answer...