Word: ve
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Matt's graduation at the end of my first yearwas yet another crisis in my life. But--notsurprisingly as I look at it from mynow-experienced position--things worked out forthe best. Matt and I spent that summer inWashington and have since drifted slowly apart.But I've found other, wonderful friends sincethen, and I can easily say that each year I'vespent at Harvard has been better than the previousone...
...pure statistics," Van Loon concedes. "We have no physical explanation for what we've found." That explanation may be hard to come by. Experts have calculated that the tiny change in the solar constant detected by Solar Max can supply less than a millionth of the energy needed to produce the observed changes in weather. "If there really is an effect," says Van Loon, "there must be an enhancing mechanism, and we don't have the foggiest idea of what that enhancing mechanism might be." Yet the statistical evidence is so compelling that many scientists are taking it seriously...
...honest. Nothing I've ever written fits the definition "distinguished commentary." But I can explain. The Pulitzer is judged by people who are undergoing two extremely stressful things at the same time. One, they're in New York City; and two, they're reading Pulitzer Prize entries, which are often written for the purpose of winning Pulitzer Prizes. Whole forests could be saved if we didn't actually put these in the newspaper and just sent them straight to the Pulitzer jurists instead. So these people have to read hundreds of heavy, huge entries, every one of them earthshakingly important...
...ve certainly been threatened enough times. I once asked the Herald's lawyer, "How come I never get sued?" He said, "What makes you think you never get sued...
...include children. At large medical and other professional conventions, up to a third of participants bring the family. In a highly competitive industry, hoteliers have found that children's services can help win loyal business travelers and lure future customers into the fold. "If we hook them now, we've got them later in life," says Hyatt Hotels president Darryl Hartley-Leonard. "This is going to become the way of life in the travel business -- offer a specialty product line for children, and you build brand loyalty...