Word: tanked
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...Brookings Institute, a think tank inWashington, D.C., employs as fellows and guestscholars several one time Harvard instructors,including the director of its economics programs,Henry Aaron, and guest scholar Lincoln Gordon '34,who was Ziegler professor of internationaleconomic relations from...
...this year. I woke up one morning to finish my junior essay and, as I leaned over to turn on my computer, I noticed a truck in the middle of the Quad. When I put on my glasses, I saw that it wasn't a truck. It was a tank. Seriously...
...ebullient and voluble as ever. He looked fit and sounded feisty. This was not a man nursing a sense of regret or meditating on mistakes he might have made. Though his visit to the U.S. was ostensibly to raise funds and make contacts for his new political think tank, the Gorbachev Foundation, it also eased him smoothly into the rarefied ranks of senior statesmen whose pronouncements are expected to reverberate around the globe. His theme is a corollary of his own perestroika: the whole world is in need of change and reorientation...
Five years after his speech, Churchill became Prime Minister again; Gorbachev too may dream of political resurrection. He was in the midst of a 13-day speaking tour of the U.S., trying to raise $3 million for his new think tank in Moscow. At an earlier stop last week, Ronald Reagan was host at a luncheon near Los Angeles in Gorbachev's honor. Ticket price...
Much of the research on hull design is done with model boats in water tanks. Computers can monitor the various ways in which the boat interacts with the water and help designers build prototypes based on the results. The Italians ran scores of tests in a 400-m (437-yd.) tank to fashion the Venezia's hull. America 3's designers did their research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University to come up with a longer, narrow-bowed hull, meant to slice through the choppy seas expected at San Diego...