Word: pursuits
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Harvard’s aggressive pursuit of Yau, which comes two years after the University’s unsuccessful bid to attract Yau from New York University, stemmed from the recognition of a long-running weakness in the mathematics department, according to Harris and others...
McLellan judges that the level of lavish outlay reached its peak in the third year of the Reagan Administration. Probably never in U.S. history had so much been spent on caterers, limousines and designer gowns in pursuit of influence. There also was a great self-beautification movement. "When you go out now you barely see a nose you know," says McLellan. "They are deeply concerned with their exteriors...
...illusion" and that the arms-limitation treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union was "fatally flawed." At his first presidential press conference on Jan. 29, 1981, Reagan set a chilly tone. The Soviets, he said, "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" in pursuit of world domination. Only three months later, the President adopted a pragmatic course that belied his hostile words: he lifted the ineffective grain embargo that Jimmy Carter had imposed on Soviet trade after the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Ever since, the Administration's policy toward the Soviet Union...
...males and females perceive input, frame scenarios and derive conclusions. If male and female scientists arrive at identical conclusions via similar yet subtly different pathways, it suggests that together we may reach a far greater understanding of any particular problem than through any single-gender effort. In the pursuit of scientific truth, the wealth of knowledge gained through diverse perspectives truly elevates us. I sincerely hope we're not all the same. It would be a pretty boring place if we were. James S. Lee, Director Math and Science Programs Cambridge College Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...factoids, combined with the paper's abundant charts and polls, offer enough addictive minutiae each day to fuel a game of Trivial Pursuit. What is the original name of Falcon Crest? (The Vintage Years); what is America's favorite kind of cheesecake topping? (cherry); which color houses sell best? (yellow...