Word: stirred
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Peter Schweizer, an analyst with the little-known American Foreign Policy Council, created a stir last week when he wrote in the New York Times that 3,000 to 4,000 Soviet advisers were in Iraq with access to the top leadership. Therefore, he said, Moscow "almost certainly" knew about the Kuwait invasion ahead of time and may have abetted...
...common misconception that summer research assistants seldom transcend the menial duties of an academic "go-fer," Goodarzi and others say. Summer interns are frequently portrayed as slaves to the xerox machine, pausing only to stir the professor's coffee. Interns are quick to counter, however, that they are usually assigned a full range of research tasks, often personally assisting the professor with important projects...
...incident has not caused much of a stir in Israel. Editorial writers and politicians have avoided the subject. One reason is that Israelis are far less sensitive than many Westerners to charges of conflict of interest in news reporting. Another may be that the actions of the free-lancers, some of whom are presumably Israeli citizens, may be seen as the deeds of patriots rather than propagandists...
...case of extended rain, the race may be delayed.) According to the < contest's sponsors -- GM, the Department of Energy and the Society of Automotive Engineers -- the race is more than a vivid demonstration of what today's solar technology can do. They hope that it will also stir the creative juices of a generation of science-shy students that seems inclined to leave the engineering challenges of tomorrow to the Japanese...
SAFE DEPOSITS. A decade ago, California tycoon Robert K. Graham caused a stir and a few snickers when he established the Repository for Germinal Choice. Its purpose: to make the sperm of brainy men (preferably Nobel prizewinners) available to brainy, childless women, who would then theoretically bear superintelligent babies. Three Nobel laureates contributed to this experiment, although the only one to announce his deposits was William Shockley (physics, 1956), a proponent of crackpot theories about the genetic inferiority of blacks. After ten years the repository has spawned 111 children, with 30 more on the way, but not a single...