Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Northeastern was unable to hold its high pace from the beginning of the race, however, and its strength waned into the powerful headwind. The Crimson roared back and won the race by an impressive six-second margin...
...must recognize that knowledge is a valuable resource," Bok said in February. "Universities are institutions that have a great strength in that area, and we should give as much encouragement as we can to people who want to take advantage of the breadth of knowledge that we have...
...signs of a struggle within the Kremlin seemed unmistakable. For more than six months, thinly veiled attacks on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policies had been growing bolder. No one outside the ruling Politburo, however, could know for certain the strength of the General Secretary's opponents in what Moscow insiders called the battle for perestroika -- Gorbachev's term for the radical economic restructuring he is trying to carry out. Was Gorbachev's authority being seriously challenged? Or did the criticism exchanged in coded speeches and press articles amount to no more than a difference in emphasis between officials pursuing...
...schools to adopt glitzy new marketing gimmicks for wooing top prospects. "Everybody's hustling," says Robert Thornton, director of admissions at New College in Florida. Last week Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., held an open house featuring a student play and poetry readings to emphasize the school's strength in the arts. Colgate staged a science fest, where one prospect proved so dazzling that a professor murmured, "Sign her up, sign...
Much of the character, and indeed the strength, of Sultan's paintings lies in their odd, slightly fetishistic technique. He works on square plywood panels, faced with Masonite and then covered with ordinary vinyl tiles. Over these goes a thick coat of black glop -- industrial butyl rubber, used by roofers. Once this tarry skin is dry, Sultan cuts and blowtorches his design into it, filling in white patches with plaster and enriching the whole with color. The seams of the tiles and panels impose a grid on the image, a ghost memory of the minimalist grids that pervaded American...