Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to unravel the detailed behavior of El Nino, Ralph and dozens of other researchers are furthering a scientific quest that began in the 1920s, when the British meteorologist Sir Gilbert Walker linked swings in atmospheric pressure over the Pacific to a disastrous failure of the Indian monsoon 50 years earlier. In the 1960s, UCLA meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes suggested that El Nino was governed by the same swings in atmospheric pressure...
...denounce official bilingualism. But providing a bilingual society has a high price. Precious tax dollars go to providing separate schools, court services and the publication of print articles in both official languages, French and English. The unofficial result has been a polarization of the country. Politicians in their quest for power play one language group against the other. In Canada, with about 30 million people, bilingualism costs the taxpayers more than $350 million a year. It could cost the U.S. 10 times that amount. FRED HAMILTON Amherst...
Both of these games are very winnable for Harvard, and with Princeton and Penn on the horizon, are crucial for the Crimson in its quest to make team history...
Throughout high school and until this year, I used the Franklin Day Planner system. In may, Franklin Quest Co. merged with Covey Leadership Centers, creating Franklin Covey Co. In it, I kept scheduling information, notes from various time-consuming activities and my ruminations on topics ranging from plans of study to gift lists...
...Dodi Fayed's love child 15 months ago, have surfaced in Britain. The Sun tabloid has reprinted some of the letters with which Holliday reportedly "bombarded" Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed. "I am not a nutter or a gold digger," she wrote. The paper claims Holliday "began her quest by leaving a letter at the cemetery where Dodi was buried." The head of Al Fayed's security team called her claims about meeting Dodi "garbage." The Sun also reveals that Holliday purportedly attempted to sell her daughter to an English couple for 4,000 pounds and "is said...