Word: prize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special committee of the BSA has assembled acalendar of events for the month. The BlackHistory Committee has scheduled movies like theCivil Rights documentary Eyes on the Prize,invited speakers like WBZ-TV's anchor Liz Walkerand planned meals with Black faculty andadministrators
Scully said members of the foundation distributing the prize include the executive director of Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, which owns Panasonic, and a former chief justice of Japan's supreme court...
...selection process resembles that of the Nobel Prize committee. Each year a panel of Japanese scientists and academics, after designating two sectors of science or technology, accepts nominations from scientists worldwide...
Since the prize was established in 1985, Americans have made up more than half of the winners, Scully said...
...Japan Prize Selection Committee chose Corey from a field of 407 nominees for sythesizing prostagladins--key regulatory substances in the body. His work with prostagladins has led to the production of many therapeutic synthetic agents...