Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard traditionally keeps the identities ofthe honorands a secret until Commencement day,shortly before President Derek C. Bok reads thecitations to an audience of tens of thousands inTercentenary Theater. The University and thehonorands decline to comment on the awards inadvance.
WASHINGTON--Tens of thousands of long-distance telephone callers faced delays yesterday as workers rallied and walked picket lines at American Telephone & Telegraph facilities in the nation's largest strike in three years.
The attacks, which improbably involved rental cars as well as helicopters and jet fighters, came at a time of sputtering unrest throughout South Africa. Early in the week the Pretoria government announced that it had found a large cache of mines, bombs, rockets, grenades and automatic rifles, supposedly belonging to...
Drug screening programs test tens of thousands of chemicals, first in the lab, and then in animals, to find a drug which might cure or arrest AIDS. The possiblities are gradually narrowed down as a chemical meets or fails to meet a set of criteria.
The couple were among the 60-odd survivors of Beirut's once thriving European and American communities, which at their height numbered in the tens of thousands. The staunchest Western holdouts: the academic fraternity, which had made Beirut into the regional center of higher education. But the execution of three...