Word: prizes
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Members briefly debated the awards' dollar values, but larger prizes prevailed after one committee officer noted that the top prize was "enough...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor currently teaching at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), was offered a joint professorship in the women's studies committee and the history department last week...
Ulrich won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1990 book A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. She specializes in American the social history before 1820, especially the social history of New England
Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates in Massachusetts and author of The Prize, is more cautious about forecasting the coming solar era; he has watched market pressures obliterate past predictions about the future of energy. He also notes that oil and coal companies are not standing idle but are vigorously trying to lower costs and provide cleaner- burning fuels. "The critical question," Yergin contends, "is whether any innovation meets the test of the marketplace." Older and perhaps wiser than they were in the 1970s, the apostles of renewable energy claim they are now poised to meet that test...
...Syria is not our only uncollateralized "investment in peace." Nor is it the most egregious example of up-front payment to a terrorist state in return for promises or promises of promises. The nuclear deal just concluded with North Korea earns that prize...