Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...institute also focuses on improving biomedical research, Rabkin said. The institute now focuses on remedies for research problems ranging from securing project funding to increasing communication between scientists researching similar subjects...
...plight of the Russians doesn't tweak your heart strings, how about the Albanian Kosovans. The Serb's have renewed their project of ethnic cleansing in that region, ejecting the chief U.S. peace-verifier, massacring at least one village and commencing the artillery bombardment of others...
...soon a windmill to provide power. "There are so many things that can go wrong in Manhattan," he says. "[In Taos] I can control my environment." Near Boulder, Colo., Paloma O'Riley, an ex-Navy computer security specialist, has helped organize more than 200 groups nationwide through her Cassandra Project, an online Y2K advice network that gets half a million hits a month at its website. "Everybody's coming to this [problem] late," she says. "Most 'contingency plans' were written 10 years ago and put on a shelf...
...COBOL. "If Grace Hopper and I were at fault, it was for making the language so easy that anybody could get in on the act." And anybody did, including a group of Mormons in the late '50s who wanted to enlist the newfangled machines in their massive genealogy project--clearly the kind of work that calls for thinking outside the 20th century box. Bemer obliged by inventing the picture clause, which allowed for a four-digit year. From this point on, more than 40 years ahead of schedule, the technology was available for every computer in the world to become...
...initially agreed to co-produce the film, but when Barenboim balked, it dropped out, citing internal rules that forbade it from making dramatic films about living people unless all those involved approved. EMI, which owns most of Du Pre's recordings, also refused to participate in the project. "We felt that the film focused on the wrong aspect of the Jackie legacy," says Richard Lyttelton, president of EMI Classics. "They were looking for sensationalism and ignoring the fact that she was the greatest soloist produced by Britain in the 20th century." Lyttelton also concedes that his company didn't want...