Word: ringed
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...Lampoon also makes money from its parodies of popular magazines like Newsweek and People; according to Rheault, a spoof of the Tolkien Ring trilogy, Bored of the Rings, still generates large royalties almost 15 years after it came out. In addition, the Lampoon has a separate endowment, administered by the group's board of trustees, which in 1981 declared income of almost $20,000 and assets of nearly $200,000. Karlock notes, however, that the Lampoon incurs considerable expense in subsidizing the regular issues of the magazine, as well as maintaining its nearly three-quarters-of-a-century-old building...
Western intelligence authorities fear that the KGB believes the same rules that lead to success at home will also work abroad. During the Andropov era, the KGB's foreign directorate moved out of the Dzerzhinsky Square headquarters to a large, modern, half-moon-shaped office building on the Moscow Ring Road. It expanded overseas operations, though it still shares assignments with the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye), the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet military. Many experts consider the KGB to be the world's most effective information-gathering organization. Says a senior intelligence staff member in Congress: "It used...
...year have accumulated to present assets of $80 million, including the 47 acres in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, where the Country House and Hospital stands. The budget is $14 million a year and rising. The director of fund raising is William Campbell, whose name may not ring a bell, but whose face would...
Burke sums up the season in symbolic terms: "I want to get a watch, a ring and win the Beanpot"--a ring for winning the Ivy title and a watch for a victory in the ECAC or NCAA Championship...
...CERN team, which included physicists from Austria, Switzerland, the United States, Italy, France, and Britain, was able to produce the subparticle by accelerating protons and their antimatter twins, antiprotons, in opposite directions around an underground ring which lies beneath parts of France and Switzerland. The W particles were produced when the protons and antiprotons collided, creating a blast of energy in the ring, which is four miles in circumference...