Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point in his response to students who staged a full-day sit-in in April at the headquarters of Harvard's Governing Boards. "It is ironic," he wrote, "to have students in at the office of the governing Boards during the very week when President Bok is trying to shape national policy about student financial aid, South Africa and other important issues...
...Canada at Brampton, Ont. For now, the biggest thing AMC has going for it is its popular Jeep. The company in the fall will introduce a Jeep pickup truck. AMC cannot turn to its partner and part owner, French automaker Renault, for help. Renault is in even worse shape. It lost $1.4 billion last year...
...performed her six-hour multimedia epic, United States, Parts I-IV. Wilson directed Marc-Antoine Charpentier's baroque opera Medee last fall in France; Reich's music has been performed by major orchestras from San Francisco to Cologne. The next extraordinary concentration of creative artists is now probably taking shape. Wherever it turns out to be, it should be compared not with Paris in the '20s but to New York City just a decade...
...paper published this month in the British journal Nature, six astronomers reported that they had made the most precise measurement yet of an object at the galactic center within Sgr A*, which for two decades has been known to be radiating large amounts of energy. The size and shape of Sgr A*, and its energetic output, says Caltech Astronomer Kwok-yung Lo, are strong evidence that "there may be a black hole in the center of our galaxy" devouring matter at a rapid rate...
...which can peer through the clouds of interstellar dust that hide the galactic center from the glassy-eyed view of optical telescopes. Still, the enigmatic source of radiation was an enormous distance away -- 30,000 light-years, or 180 quadrillion miles. The only way to discern its size and shape accurately was to employ a technique called VLBI (very long baseline interferometry). In 1983 the astronomers observed Sgr A* with six giant dish-shaped radio telescopes, one each in Massachusetts, West Virginia and Texas, and three in California. "In effect, the configuration of the telescopes gave us a 'lens...