Word: panels
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...conference also included panel discussions on topics ranging from religion in Taiwanese society to political development to "non-conventional" careers. One of the more popular work-shops, titled "Beyond Bruce Lee," featured demonstrations of dance and martial arts...
Several questions posed to the panel concerned discrimination. The panelists agreed that in their professions there was no discrimination against Asians and Asian-Americans...
...himself gave him a head start. In February the 55-year-old Livingston told colleagues that should Gingrich run for President in 2000, he wanted to take over. Four years earlier, Gingrich had handpicked Livingston--at the time the fifth-ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee--to become the panel's chairman. Livingston ultimately used this perch of patronage to knife his benefactor: wielding his clout as Congress's most powerful chairman--the guy who doles out the money--Livingston last week assiduously tapped a base of supporters to push Gingrich...
...obligated to resolve any subsidy issue before that body. That's exactly what the European Union attempted to do last November, when it filed a complaint with the WTO charging that FSCs are export subsidies and thus prohibited by world trading rules. The WTO has since appointed a dispute panel to hear the charge and make a recommendation...
...that velocity, says Guenter Riegler, a NASA senior scientist, a meteoroid as small as a dust particle could blast a hole nearly half an inch across in a solar panel or a layer of insulation. Equally threatening is the intense heat of impact, which would instantly vaporize the meteoroid and convert it to an ionized gas, or plasma, that would shock the spacecraft with an electrostatic charge. "If that charge got into some of your data circuitry," Riegler says, "it could wipe out data...