Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said yesterday that there is no specific monetary goal for the Institute's fundraising. Dr. Elkan R. Blout, dean for academic affairs at the School of Public Health, characterized the project as needing "tens of millions of dollars...
...asked the Council to appoint coordinatorsfor the project in each of Harvard's faculties.The coordinators will identify researchers in thevarious schools and encourage new experts to beginwork on AIDS issues...
...bloc spy? Speer is apparently not telling, and the West Germans lack sufficient evidence to haul him into court. But back in Berkeley, an intriguing new lead has surfaced. Three months after Speer took the Star Wars bait, the lab received a request for more information on the bogus project. Postmarked Pittsburgh, it was signed by a reputed arms dealer with ties to Saudi Arabia. How could he have got the address? The only way, lab officials insist, was to have been in cahoots -- or at least in contact -- with the Hannover hacker...
...state house, she has an office down the hall from the Governor's, and has been known to stride into a meeting unannounced and question her husband on some pet project while slightly startled state legislators look on. She can be imperious with others, and is quite exacting with those who work for her. If thank-you notes are not done perfectly, she demands new ones. She is vigilant about catching mistakes, from a misspelled name to an incorrect date. Even more so than her husband, she does not suffer incompetence gladly...
...project was conceived in the late 1970s by John Langford, then a student at M.I.T. and now a researcher at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Va. His dream took the combined brains and brawn of 36 engineers, students, historians, physiologists and athletes -- and nearly three years -- to realize. Like the ultralight craft Gossamer Albatross, which crossed the English Channel in 1979, Daedalus uses human energy and a pair of pedals to drive its propellers. The craft was designed and constructed specifically to challenge Albatross's records for both duration (2 hr. 40 min.) and straight- line distance...