Word: ran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest minds of the 12th century ran the Mondale-Ferraro campaign...
...business ventures in orbit is McDonnell Douglas, the St. Louis aerospace company. The firm has long made propulsion systems and other hardware for the U.S. space program and the shuttle. On five nights earlier this year, McDonnell Douglas and Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey medical-supply company, ran electrophoresis experiments, which allowed precise separation under weightless conditions of biological materials. Although one batch was contaminated, the others permitted the removal of impurities too small to be extracted on earth. One possible outgrowth: production of insulin-producing cells to control diabetes. Says Isaac Gillam, the NASA official in charge of commercial...
Some political observers professed to see little or no mandate for Reagan, despite the historic proportions of his victory. In 1980, they point out, Reagan ran on a specific ideological platform that included tax cuts and defense buildups, and in victory he could credibly claim that the electorate wanted both. By contrast, they contend, his avoidance of specific issues this year has forced him to forfeit the claim to sweeping political authority, except possibly in the personality department. For some others, Mondale's disastrous weakness as a television-era candidate skewed the voting results. Joked Kansas Senator Robert Dole...
Upon submitting his senior thesis in April 1943, an elated Harold F. Van Ummerson 44 ran down to the Harvard radio station, inspired to do something unusual. For the next three hours, he played all of Beethoven's symphonies in numerical order, changing the 78 RPM records every three or four minutes...
...station applied for a frequency but immediately ran into difficulties. "The chief problem was a legal one--the FCC didn't want a bunch of kids who changed every two years to be responsible for a radio station that broadcast rather widely across the Boston area," says Wyss. But with the help of a number of WHRB graduates who worked for the FCC, the station was given an FM frequency...