Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repeat jobs. The Cambridge offices of the New Institute for Central America (NICA), which arranges for Americans to travel to Nicaragua, were ransacked recently for the fourth time. "We think that the Government is behind these acts," said Garrett D. Brown, NICA's associate director, though he had no solid proof to support his theory. The FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service insist they had nothing to do with the burglaries. "We are not involved in any illegal break- ins," said FBI Spokesman Bill Carter. He added, "If we did it, they wouldn't know it. We're better than...
...making gadgets, they construct jokes. Sometimes the jokes are academic, such as Michael Graves' neo-Biedermeier chair (1981) and Robert Venturi's line of Chippendale, Queen Anne and Empire parodies (1984). Sometimes the jokes are perverse, and the subject is the material itself. Scott Burton has carved chairs from solid granite (1984) and Gehry's fish-shaped lamp (1983) is made of Formica chips...
Radcliffe's solid showing in the Victorian Urn Women's Intersectional at Radcliffe in late October qualifed the squad for the Women's Atlantic Championships in Norfolk...
Should the probe weather its many assaults, the rewards will be splendid. During its four-hour encounter, Giotto will explore the material streaming from the nearby nucleus with a total of ten experiments. As the craft revolves on its axis, a solid-state optical camera extending from the bottom rim like a bent stovepipe will snap a photograph once every four seconds. The pictures will be instantly transmitted to earth and shown live on television. Mass spectrometers will analyze the composition of the dust from the nucleus, and other instruments will examine the properties of the ions in detail...
Overall, however, the city can proudly point to some solid accomplishments. Through a contract with the Los Angeles County sheriff, West Hollywood has beefed up police protection by about 20%, adding foot patrols, organizing neighborhood-watch groups and driving serious crime down by 18%. Meanwhile, without raising taxes, the city has amassed a budget surplus of more than $6 million: money that before cityhood was collected in West Hollywood but was spent elsewhere in Los Angeles County...