Word: thins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...style, I don't think that colleges respond so well to Grand Sweeping Statements (which...are often forgotten or lost after the rhetoric wears thin), but are actually improved by continual incremental changes," Knowles wrote in an e-mail message...
...also there that she would meet her husband Peter W. Leight '73, a "scary" sight then, she remembers, with long hair and a thin build. Leight, now an assistant attorney general for Massachusetts, transferred into the House after a semester's leave of absence. The two moved off-campus for Bruzelius' junior and senior years. Now they have four children, ages...
...bungling and diplomatic trembling, but let's take the day in 1955 when Shanghai-born Qian Xuesen goes home. He had fled the Japanese occupation of China and landed at M.I.T., then earned a Ph.D. at Caltech, where he joined a rocket-research group to pioneer supersonic aerodynamics and thin-shell-stability theory for ballistic missiles. At the university's prestigious Jet Propulsion Lab, he helped design Private A, the first U.S. solid-fuel missile that worked. Then he was invited into the U.S. Army as a colonel to fashion the Titan ICBM, workhorse of the cold war silo-missile...
Loral's exploded satellite--which was going to be used to beam TV programs into Latin America--shows just how thin the line can be between harmless commerce and military assistance. Representative Christopher Cox sternly warned last week that China has been inducing its U.S. business partners to provide it with military-related technology, and momentum is growing in Congress for a crackdown on this kind of seepage. But the tech industry, and some outside observers, say the risks are being overblown--and some of the tighter rules being considered would be ineffective or even counterproductive...
Having known Mastrantonio, Sayles wrote Donna for her, infusing the character with what he calls her "resilience" and then creating a stern, surprising test for it. Civilization in Alaska is, after all, a thin membrane stretched across a vast wilderness, and the writer-director devises a way for Donna, Joe and her daughter to fall into the darkness. On a seemingly innocent cruise with his half brother, they are beset by murderous demons out of the brother's shady past and become castaways on a deserted island--their resources (and survivalist skills) scant, the knowledge that the criminals must seek...