Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bakker said that evidence in support of his theory is not new, yet it has been largely ignored because it doesn't "fit" with turn-of-the-century notions of dinosaurs that have persisted to this...
...have learned that Harvard can do almost anything. It can persuade Nobel Laureates, who did not even bother to go to Sweden to pick up their awards, to speak here. It can refuse the President of the United States an honorary degree, and it can turn away more than 85 percent of the people who apply here...
...said, "What it all boils down to is that myopponent and I have a fundamentally different viewof the future of America. This is no time for theUnited States to turn dramatically left...
...dean's office therefore asked that leadersof a first year students' section turn overhandwritten forms filled out by students to beused for compiling a directory. The sectionleaders were put in charge of putting together thehandbook at the beginning of this year...
...Today, however, on a bright fall afternoon, past worries are forgotten. After a four-month plant shutdown, the new computer that will automate operations is in place, and the shaft will soon start to turn again. A few last-minute tasks remain. Engineers bend over diagrams of the wiring circuits as they test connections in the mazes of wires that fill the control cabinets. The start-up countdown begins in earnest. Engineers watch the gauges as the needles begin to move. An exacting series of 14 conditions must be met before the computer will allow operation to start. When...