Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...details that emerged last week about the stormy March 4 Moscow summit meeting between Polish and Soviet leaders. Led by Leonid Brezhnev and five Politburo members, the Soviet team reportedly called Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania on the carpet for letting the crisis get out of hand. Brandishing thick dossiers on the Polish labor movement, some of the Soviet officials read aloud from Solidarity union documents and speeches as though they were presenting a bill of indictment. One member of the Polish delegation was reportedly so shaken by the tirade that he told his colleagues that a Soviet invasion...
...business. All key decision-making positions are held by the royal family which consists of an estimated 5000 princes. At the apex is King Khalid bin Abdul Aziz, 68, who has turned out to be surprisingly popular, projecting an image of old-fashioned rectitude and drinking countless cups of thick coffee while listening patiently to complaints and petitions during tours of remote provinces If the King is a kind of chairman of the board, Crown Prince Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, 59, his halfbrother, is chief executive officer. Amiable and energetic he enjoys the exercise of power...
Tradition, some say, runs thick at Harvard. The men's squash team reaffirmed a tradition yesterday that is showing signs of becoming hoary from age by defeating Yale for the 20th consecutive year, this time with an 8-1 thrashing at Hemenway...
...most effective controls on Harvard and other large city institutions may come this winter from the Community Development Department in less dramatic form--a thick wad of regulations and charts that will make it all but impossible for universities to grow without city...
...size of the undertaking will make this one of the most complex engineering projects ever undertaken. In the harsh winters of the Yamal, roughly 150 miles above the Arctic Circle, rubber turns as hard as armor plating and steel rods snap like peppermint sticks. The permafrost is so thick during most of the year that the toughest of excavating equipment must be used to break through it; yet in summer the ground can turn into a quagmire that blocks both man and machine...