Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sally H. Zeckhauser, president of Harvard Real Estate (HRE) Inc., called the discussions "tricky and sensitive" at this stage and would reveal no details about a potential sale...
...during the days that the five international probes encounter the comet, all of Columbia's eyes will be on Halley's. One of the Astro-1 telescopes will peer at very short wavelength light to see if it can detect such elements as helium, neon and argon, which would reveal something about what temperatures were like at the time the solar system formed. If neon were detected, for example, scientists would have to lower their estimates of the temperature at which comets coalesce. A second telescope will measure the polarization of light and spectral distribution, which will provide clues...
...system. They hope that by peering into Halley's cold heart and sniffing out the dust and gases that stream from its surface, they can discern the conditions that existed at the birth of the sun and the nine planets some 4.5 billion years ago. That in turn could reveal how common an occurrence the formation of planets around other stars may be, hence how likely it is that extraterrestrial life exists. "Comets are like a cosmic refrigerator," says Paul Feldman, an astronomer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. "They've internally preserved the whole history of the solar system...
IPPNW statements which attempt to portray the group as an apolitical information body only do more to reveal its nature as a purely Western pressure group with little or no influence on Soviet policy. Witness a statement by Dr. John O. Pastore, the group's secretary: "We intend to use the receipt of the Nobel Prize to do more and actually affect both sides." This sounds great; but how to get the Soviets to listen? Lown himself experiences odd swings between proclaiming an apolitical stance ("above politics from the inception...") and admitting his desire to affect national policies...
Yale officials refuse to reveal their president's compensation, but it is believed that Giamatti's salary is in the neighborhood of that received by his Harvard counterpart, President Derek C. Bok. Bok's 1983-84 base salary...