Word: spearhead
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Cornell said the telescope is the center's response to a national need in astronomy to advance the study of unexplored regions and stellar occurrences using "sub-millimeter waves"--radiation with a wavelength of less than a millimeter. "This is the spearhead of a national drive in astrophysics to advance study in this area," he said...
...abandoned the openhanded policies that got him elected, Mitterrand needs time for his new economic rigueur to work, and he must somehow retain the support of his traditional constituents on the shop floor. Back in 1981, he stood in Longwy and pledged that the steel industry would be the "spearhead" of an industrial revival in France. Harsh reality has turned that promise to ashes, but his audience that day will not let him forget it. -By John Nielsen. Reported by Jordan Bonfante/Paris and Thomas A. Sanctm/Longwy
...showcased Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, a P.O.W. melodrama set in Java in 1942 starring David Bowie and two popular Japanese performers, Singer-Songwriter Ryuichi Sakamoto and the TV comic Takeshi. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is scheduled to open this fall in New York as the spearhead of an Oshima retrospective...
...became nationally known as Oregon's "live ability" governor, died last Saturday after a long battle with cancer. He was 69. In McCall, the nation has lost one of its foremost environmentalists, a man whose main priority was to improve the natural environment of his state, and to spearhead a movement to do the same nationwide...
...government's inability to halt the epidemic of brutal criminal violence that has gripped Italy in recent years. The Archbishop of Palermo was presiding over a highly emotional memorial service for Carabinieri General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the appointed prefect of Palermo, who had arrived in May to spearhead the government's efforts to clean up the Sicilian Mafia. The day before, Dalla Chiesa, 62, and his bride of less than two months, Emanuela Setti Carraro, 32, were slain in downtown Palermo during an ambush by presumed Mafia hitmen...