Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secure power base since leaving the Labor Alliance to join the new government. Secret diplomacy can make influential friends as well as intriguing headlines. It can also provoke critics. "Our Foreign Minister," editorialized the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv last week, "has special talents in the sphere of thunderous secrecy. The entire world is always well informed about his timetable. Mr. Dayan creates too much ado about his secrets." Added a second newspaper, Al Hamishmar. "He certainly achieved one aim-to keep the name Dayan in the headlines...
Granted, Savage chose his present situation. He didn't want a factory. But three years have shown him that even within its given sphere, Harvard football is not all it could...
...plan are not Nairobi technocrats, United Nations advisers or U.S. Agency for International Development officials, as one might expect. Instead, Kenya, like seven other developing countries on three continents, has turned to Harvard. The Kenyans have come to the University's leading and apparently evergrowing representative in the international sphere, the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...
Humanity has always dreamed of flying off into the deep blue yonder. Balloons were the oldest airships, in fact and fantasy: Oz journeyed over the rainbow in a bag of green silk, and Phileas Fogg embarked on his 80-day voyage around the world dangling from a sphere of hot air. Today the sport of ballooning is enjoying a buoyant renaissance. Rotund flying machines with names like The Artful Dodger, Dante and Pollution Solution hover over golf courses and horse pastures, lifting the spirit and ornamenting the air-bright Christmas balls in the summer...
...unconsidered in the serious business of games played by grown men-it is the most difficult task in sport. Consider the problem: a bat 2¾ in. in diameter at its widest, hitting a ball not quite 3 in. in diameter; two objects-one cylindrical, the other a sphere-meeting headon. Consider the speed: a major league pitcher's fastball traveling well over 90 m.p.h., hissing the 60-ft. 6-in. distance from mound to plate in ⅔ of a second. Consider the odds: the game's greatest stars failing the task seven times in ten, and still...