Word: prize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1/4-hour final. "Most pleased!" he declared. "I really wanted to win. I was determined." His title is no mean feat: the game has now been translated into 19 languages, and 100 million copies have been sold. Hiyakuta, a trading-company employee from Chiba City, took home a cash prize of $15,140 -- the amount of play money that comes with a Monopoly...
...autobiographical sections largely take the form of digressions from the scientific discussions, with the exception of a long, unconstructive chapter on the Nobel Prize ceremony. In other words, Glashow takes a break from involved discussion of particle physics to describe who his friends were then (and what they are doing now--either in their professional or personal lives), his apartment's appearance, the women in his life, et cetera, et cetera...
CONTEMPORARY American angstmeister Lanford Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize for this play in 1980. Wilson's plays seem to follow their own jazzlike, semi-improvisational rhythm. See what this prophet of malaise does with a would-be love story...
...device is designed to combine the computing power of a $20,000 engineering machine with the simple congeniality of a personal computer. It will be sold, at least initially, only to colleges and universities. But by all accounts, Jobs has his eye on a much larger prize: the $3.6 billion market for high-powered workstations that represents the fastest-growing segment of the computer industry...
...house with a few other distressed gentlefolk. They might all be sitting on a verandah above the Ganges a half-century ago, waiting for the subcontinental jewel to fall out of the imperial crown. But now Madame has taken on Manek (Navin Chowdhry), a gifted Indian lad, as her prize pupil. She will wage war with his beautiful mother (Shabana Azmi) over his time and loyalty. She will goad Manek to greatness and lose a bit of her heart...