Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...engaged in small talk about Koop's busy schedule and Mapplethorpe's latest exhibition, organized by Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art. "Robert had been thrilled about the prospect of shooting Koop," says Anne Kennedy, the photographer's agent. "He had enormous respect for him and his compassion for people suffering from AIDS. He really rallied to do this. He had been spending most days in bed." Out of respect for the Surgeon General's well-known views on smoking, Mapplethorpe hid his cigarettes before Koop arrived...
That theory, however, is much doubted by many physicists who have labored for decades to achieve controlled fusion. Says Robert Conn, director of UCLA's Institute of Plasma and Fusion Research: "Fusion events should produce radiation ((such as neutrons and gamma rays)), and radiation can be measured. If it's really fusion and there's no radiation, then it's Nirvana." Considering the amount of heat that Pons and Fleischmann reported, physicists say, the accompanying radiation should have killed them. That means either that an unusual sort of fusion took place -- a theory held by some -- or that...
North's hope is that the jury will believe that most of his secret actions ; were approved by President Reagan, former National Security Advisers John Poindexter and Robert McFarlane and the late CIA Director William Casey. After North's testimony, the defense rested, setting the stage this week for closing arguments and jury deliberations. They are likely to turn on a difficult question: Is Ollie North, who admitted lying to protect the contras, now telling the truth...
...Apollo Computer, once the dominant force in the booming workstation marketplace. Now Sun is crowding Digital Equipment, a company 25 years its senior and more than six times its size. This year, as Sun approaches $2 billion in annual sales, even IBM can no longer ignore its rise. Says Robert Herwick, who follows the industry for the investment firm Hambrecht & Quist: "Clearly, Sun is the answer to a question...
Executive Vice Presidents: Donald M. Elliman Jr., S. Christopher Meigher III, Robert L. Miller...