Word: papering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to sit down with my kids and tell them what they need to do, say 'This is how you study for a test,' and 'This is how you write a paper,' " she says...
Hawking's 1969 paper proving that time had a beginning won second prize in the Gravitational Research Foundation's annual competition, "winning me the princely sum of $300," said Hawking, as a cartoon depicting a number '2' trophy appeared on the screen behind...
...know who won first prize, but I hope his paper turned out to be wrong," Hawking quipped...
...nation?s economy is controlled by organized crime, it?s inevitable that government officials ? including those at the Central Bank ? have a finger or two (or an arm, up to the shoulder) in the cookie jar. The Russians, say U.S. investigators, just want to find out where the U.S. paper trail is leading before they fill in any of the blanks. Said former CIA counterterrorism chief Vincent Cannistraro told USA Today: "They're trying to find out what it is we know before they play...
...notes in metal cases beneath his dacha. By his retirement in 1984 he had a trove of the KGB's deepest secrets, including agent names and accounts of assassinations and covert actions. In 1992 he arranged for British intelligence to whisk him, his family and his trunks of paper to safety. Spy hunters and prosecutors got first crack at the papers, and according to Mitrokhin's co-author, Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew, a dozen probes of old spies are still active. Mitrokhin wanted to publish his files to reveal to the world the paranoia, cynicism and abuse endemic...