Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peking's Great Hall of the People. The Reagans instead chose the newly completed Great Wall Hotel. A 1,007-room glass-and-steel high-rise jointly built by Chinese and American developers, the hotel is a symbol of China's growing Western ties and its quest for modernization...
...Gallo laid the groundwork for the discovery with his earlier research into cancer viruses. Says French Immunologist Daniel Zagurey of the University of Paris: "Without Gallo, there wouldn't have been any work on this at Pasteur. Their research is based on his initial discovery." Gallo's quest for the cause of cancer began in childhood. As a boy of 14, in Waterbury, Conn., he watched his younger sister die of leukemia. The memory is still vivid: "She was an emaciated, jaundiced child with a mouth full of blood." His sister's pathologist became a family friend...
...should not frighten people in the East and West again with a new quest for national unity, and finally accept the consequences of a war we instigated with all its horrors." The 800 miles of tank traps, minefields and barbed wire that still separate East from West are a constant reminder that in political terms there are, and for the foreseeable future there will be, two Germanys...
...1950s: crew cut, protuberant ears and a sleepy stare. Since then, nothing, not even a forwarding address; rumor has him spending a lot of time in Southern California. An eerie question arises: How did the young Pynchon know that his writings would one day set readers off on a quest to find him? His prescience has proved remarkable...
...more one of principle than reality. Defense Department officials say that the Pentagon funds compose only a small fraction of University research. Harvard, for instance, only receives about $4 million, a small portion of the more than $100 million the entire federal government doles out here. But the quest for censorship in this area is indicative of the general Administration instinct concerning information--to suppress...