Word: neil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first eight minutes of the contest, however, Harvard worked hard enough to stick close to the hosts. Freshman forward Neil Phillips drove for a lay-up and followed that with a 10-footer to pull the cagers within...
Galvin said fellow candidate Melvin H. King, who represented South Boston in the legislature at the time, joined him in pushing the bill through a state referendum and eventually into law. He described another candidate, City Council Member Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neil, as "my chief nemesis" during the discussion surrounding the reforms...
Some of the faces seemed out of a distant past. William Rogers, the New York City lawyer and former Secretary of State who had lost Washington turf battles to Henry Kissinger in the Nixon Administration. Neil Armstrong, who had taken "one giant leap for mankind" on the moon in 1969. Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who won his Nobel Prize 20 years ago. Others were fresher, including Astronaut Sally Ride, who in 1983 became the first American woman in space. They and nine other experts were appointed last week to a presidential commission charged with finding out why the space...
...cliffs, part of a stratum of sedimentary shale and sandstone interleaved with volcanic basalt, date from between 225 million and 175 million years ago. The entire rock formation was long thought to be virtually devoid of fossils and thus of little interest to paleontologists. In fact, says Neil Shubin, 25, a graduate student in biology at Harvard, the site they discovered "looks like Rocky Road ice cream. It's dark rock absolutely splattered with bone." Says his partner, Geologist Paul Olsen, 32, of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory: "We were shocked by the number of fossils...
State Rep. Thomas J. Vallely (D-Back Bay), James Roosevelt, Jr. '68, James Spiegal, Robert M. Cappucci, and Boston City Councillor Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neil, who is expected to announce his candidacy today...