Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entering professions and occupations in which they work side by side with men. At King Saud University, female students still attend classes on a separate campus and listen to lectures from male professors over closed-circuit TV. But beneath their veiled garments, many are outfitted in tight skirts, spike heels and snug-fitting tops and resemble nothing so much as Brooke Shields look- alikes. The coeds are becoming more aggressive at the dating game. They bring photos of their brothers and cousins to school to exchange with their classmates and provide telephone numbers when interest is shown...
...data from Vega 1 showed that the craft encountered less dust than expected as it approached the comet. But Physicist John Simpson of the University of Chicago, who designed the only American instrument -- a dust detector -- aboard Vega, noted that as the spacecraft departed, it passed through a "huge spike of dust" with particles about the size of those in cigarette smoke. Simpson and other scientists interpreted the spike as a burst of dust and gas erupting from the surface of the nucleus. Other Vega instruments seemed to show that the icy cometary surface was being evaporated by solar radiation...
...pulled ahead, 10-5, in the following game, and after Harvard battled back to tie the game at 12 apiece, the visitors--behind a net call on Harvard, a good block, and a spike by Paul Stuopis--tied the match at 1-1 with...
...Scott Neilson's spike nailed the Engineers' coffin, lifting the Crimson to a 15-9 victory...
...Crimson ran off another unanswered string of points in the second game. Facing a 3-2 deficit, Harvard tied the game when Park threaded the needle with another booming spike...