Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wildcats responded with a 12-0 strike toput the game out of reach. Senior guard DerekCounts, who was the high scorer with 22 points,led the run with eight straight points--all ofthem coming on his four field goals in the game.Counts shot 16 for 17 from the foul line...
Today, the 22-year-old Elkies' resume is enough to strike anyone but a Nobel laureate dumb with awe. By the time he graduated first in his class from Columbia at age 19, Elkies had triumphed in several national and international mathematics competitions. In 1987, after garnering his Ph.D. in mathematics in two years, he was named a Harvard Junior Fellow and is currently conducting research in number theory...
...Petrossian, 43, a linguist and committee member. "If they arrested us, they'd have an insurrection on their hands." The Karabakh movement has recently begun to wage a fresh campaign for pleading its case in Moscow. In October nationalist leader Khachik Stamboltsyan abandoned a 21-day-old hunger strike to exploit Gorbachev's democratization campaign and run for the regional parliament against the republic's sitting minister of the interior. He polled nearly three times as many votes as his opponents, but was disqualified on a technicality...
...Myerson and Steinberg courtrooms, hurrying from the ornate federal chambers to the scuffed and grimy criminal courtrooms two blocks away. "The Myerson trial is political comedy," says Robert Comeau, 71, a retired maintenance man. "This is a serious drama." Much of the fascination is with Steinberg, who seems to strike many observers in the public galleries as the personification of evil. He watches the proceedings intently, taking notes and exchanging points with his lawyers. Asks Creighton Pickering, 20, a photography student: "What ever possessed him?" Others come with thoughts of Lisa in mind. "I have an adopted son," says Spencer...
Ellsberg said that the conflict between his job as a defense adviser and his shock at military plans had surfaced several times before, particularly upon learning that America's nuclear strike strategy was projected to cause 600 million deaths worldwide...