Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...responsibilities as president will be to find Graham's successor. Eager to lend a hand, Bok appointed a five-member search committee in March. Rudenstine has met three times with this committee, which has developed a short list of six to eight names, according to committee member Catherine E. Snow, associate dean of the Ed School...
...wife's tale is lit up with the everyday magic of a world in which birds can sound like women crying and sweaters are knit in the memory of spider webs. Yet all the storybook marvels are grounded in a survivor's vinegar wit ("In Nanking, snow is like a high-level official -- doesn't come too often, doesn't stay too long"). And in front of the watercolor backdrops are horrors pitiless enough to mount a powerful indictment against a world in which women were taught that love means always having to say you're sorry. In traditional China...
...shirt quickly covered with malignant black droplets that fall like an epoxy rain. The heat of the fires pushes much of the unburned oil high into the sky; it has rained down as far away as Qatar, 645 km (400 miles) to the south, and appeared as black snow in the Indian state of Kashmir, 2,600 km (1,600 miles) to the east...
According to the first approach, universities should be taxed only as much as the amount of services they receive from the city without remuneration, such as fire protection, sewer maintenance, litter removal and snow removal...
...went there on one cool January evening, as snow softly padded a frozen Charles River. Her breath frosty, her eyes bright, she'd talk about her life, her ideas. She said she liked the cold: It made breathing easier...