Word: towered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...unlikely that the 34 marines knew they were approaching a mosque, or that Friday was the holy day for Muslims, or that it might not be a good idea to walk into a street full of Sunni Muslims kneeling in front of a Mosque whose clock tower had already been damaged by an American missile. On the walls of the mosque stood young men holding banners proclaiming "One Iraq One People," "We Reject Foreign Control," "Sunnis are Shias and Shias are Sunnis; We are all One," "All the Believers are Brothers," and similar proclamations of national and Islamic unity...
With his prestigious background in government and academia, Summers will have much to contribute as the task force considers the causes of the schism and makes recommendations for improving U.S.-European relations. It is encouraging to see a Harvard President descend from the ivory tower and engage highly pressing social issues as a public intellectual...
Over the years, however, the government came to realize the importance of discoveries made in the ivory tower and the vast profits that could be garnered from facilitating tech transfer...
Professors also applaud tech transfer for its potential to make significant ivory tower discoveries accessible and useful to the population at large...
Despite his musical talents, Vaux says he won’t be leaving the Ivory Tower for Tower Records any time soon...