Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Because it took better shots, and it played a controlled game. You could see this was a unit coming together. But the Crimson was not dominating: Harvard was smarter and played smarter...
Harris takes for his hero a neurasthenic mathematician named Tom Jericho, frail, distracted, fluky even by the measure of other code breakers at Bletchley, a town west of Cambridge where the secret intelligence unit has its warren. As the drama starts, Jericho has been furloughed from Bletchley because of instability, but is brought back again because his eerily acute mind is needed even if it is haunted and unraveling. Subplots involve a forlorn love interest and the burrowings of a suspected mole, but the real story, and a good one, is whether Jericho can track Enigma through the deep space...
...against Captain Everett Greene to examine charges that he wrote suggestive notes and made harassing calls to two female subordinates. He insists his messages were misconstrued. On Friday the judge dismissed one woman's allegations. At the time of the alleged incidents, Greene ran the Navy's equal-opportunity unit--which handled sex- harassment complaints...
...example of the flawed design, Glass cited the school's decision to give only "A" and "B" grades. Those who did not earn those grades simply repeated each unit until they did. What happened, Glass said, was that nearly every student in the school stopped studying...
...start. "A heart attack feels like this," he writes. "A sickness suddenly surrounds the lungs, a sort of toxic interior glow--fleeting at first, lightly slithering, but returning a moment later, more insistent...Something dangerous has come inside and will not leave." As he lies in a coronary-care unit awaiting his bypass operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world and my dilemma (the rage that gave me this blocked...