Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard to emerge victorious today, it will have to continue the solid defensive play that kept the team in the Princeton and Brown games. The Minutemen employ a frenzied, run-and-gun offense that depends heavily on the attackmen and thrives off unsettled situations...
Earlier that day, the Crimson had fallen, 14-8, to the powerhouse Metro-Boston club team, a squad Harvard has traditionally struggled against. Harvard was coming off its solid 10-7 defeat of Queens, a New York club team, earlier that...
LATIN AMERICA Chile has been successfully selling off public companies since 1985 and stands a solid chance of making privatization pay off. But its experience is a cautionary tale: the former military regime of General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte did not have to worry about public opinion or the press, which opposed the asset sales. Between 1985 and 1989, the government sold 24 state enterprises, raising $1.7 billion...
...static relative of film cutting, then in its infancy. Seventy years later, America sees in collage because it grew up spinning the TV dial. No such fragmentation of images was built into the culture of France or Germany in the 1920s. The relations between image and thing seemed solid. Here was something to overturn, and collage was the lever. Ernst fell on the common vein of reproductory images like a miner discovering a virgin reef...
...devices will also conduct tests of the skies throughout the electromagnetic spectrum, using X rays, visible light and infrared light. These sensitive instruments were developed by a team of scientists from Germany, the Netherlands, the U.S. and the European Space Agency. The four monitors will all use liquid and solid crystals to record the origin of gamma- ) ray sources. As the rays smash into the crystals, they produce flashes of light called scintillations. Those data will be measured and sent back to earth. One of the instruments will track gamma-ray bursts, events that until recently some scientists...