Word: prize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seoul and its ally, the U.S., the sub is an intelligence prize: very little is known about the primitive North Korean subs that patrol the coast, and the Pentagon may now learn how to track their acoustic signatures. Still, South Korea is rightly protesting this raid as a violation of the armistice and the spirit of the post-cold war times. Some Koreans wonder whether President Kim Jong Il has a firm grip on things in the North or if his military might be getting out of hand. Analysts say it's more like business as usual. Pyongyang refused...
...opera, of bruising tenderness and bravura acting, with the immediacy of real life heightened into the craft of movie art. As Blethyn lets the waterworks flow, Leigh's camera holds on her and Jean-Baptiste for nearly eight purging minutes. Blethyn's heroic work won her the Best Actress prize this year at the Cannes Film Festival. And Secrets & Lies was named Best Film at Cannes. This week it opens the New York Film Festival and will have its premiere in other major cities over the next six weeks...
...first prize in 1979 for On Human Nature, and his second in 1991 for The Ants, a mam-moth volume that served as the basis for the computer game SimAnt...
...National Institutes of Health to underwrite and supplement the research of American biomedical scientists, many of whom have made their most important contributions while working in the nih laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland. One result of this strategy: since 1960, more than 50% of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine have been Americans...
That was The Difference, Dole repeated endlessly, warming to the shorthand, sound-bite-size formulation he hoped voters would internalize. And at the time Dole was close enough in the polls to believe the prize could...