Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Space is not his only problem. Another, Reuckner says, is money. While the Advanced Physics Labs are in the process of being upgraded with a $300,000 grant from the Shell Oil company, the demonstration budget has remained relatively constant, says Rueckner...
...Harvard finally emerged from its offensive shell on a stirring drive in the beginning of the fourth, Dartmouth battled right back to knot the game...
...together for $4.95 per child, parents free. Fresh-faced "counselors," dressed in colorful sport pants and shirts, guide youngsters to appropriate play areas for differing age groups. Three-year-olds and younger can learn spatial concepts -- in and out, over and around -- by crawling in a padded plastic turtle shell or sinking into a quicksand of colorful balls and learning to control the multicolored plastic objects. Kids ages 4 to 6 climb a padded "Swiss-cheese mountain" or creep through a maze of blue, fuchsia and yellow tunnels. Youngsters up to 12 balance on a rope walk...
...bottom line is that students who need to do word processing at school are without luck. They are forced to either buy their own software, buy their own computers or pay per hour at OIT or Kinko's. Many families can't really afford to shell out thousands of dollars for a Mac or $20 per five-page paper...
...year after Bush came aboard, a reclusive Saudi named Abdullah Taha Bakhsh bought an 11% stake in Harken through a Netherlands Antilles shell company. The Saudi, a tycoon with global interests in oil, real estate and jewelry, hoped Harken could someday serve as a vehicle for moving Saudi crude into the U.S. But the strategy would never come to pass...