Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Muddy terrain, a constant downpour, and the harriers' discomfort with the unfamiliar course made for some rather unimpressive performances...
Exceptionally rugged terrain in the second mile of the course has historically plagued Crimson harriers, but the results from this year's trip to the Bronx were extremely encouraging. Both Dixon and McNulty ran two minutes faster than they did last year, and the Crimson top three finished strong despite the jack-rabbit pace set by the Lions at the outset...
...modern man to quantify human intelligence--from the 19th century study of craniometry to current I.Q. testing. The attempt to measure intelligence, Gould argues, implies "a subtle and mistaken theory of limits whose essence is that the differences among people spring from genetic inheritance." The foray into the controversial terrain of intelligence testing reveals Gould's life-long belief in the indivisibility of politics and science...
Raymond N. Joeckel, 55, Eagle's president, believes that since the terrain in mountainous Liechtenstein greatly resembles the sandy, uplifted formations of the Western Overthrust Belt in the Rockies, there may be oil and gas in those hills as well. Eagle had to put up a bond of $3 million against possible damages caused by its drilling and promise to pay 15% of the earnings of any successful wells to the Liechtenstein government. But for that, Eagle received exclusive rights to explore the nation's 39,500 acres...
...handled though it is, but the characters, all of them human and vulnerable: the flawed journalist, the fearful broker, his not quite ice-cool daughter, the sick sheik, even the attendant thugs, brass hats, cops and spies. No one except perhaps Graham Greene knows or describes his atmosphere or terrain as meticulously as Ambler. It encompasses the topography of fear. -By Michael Demarest