Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope it will set the pace for a new wave of research and interest. Frankly, Harvard hasn't shown much of a commitment to business ethics in its business program at all," says Thomas J. Donaldson, Wirtenberger Professor of Ethics at Loyola University of Chicago. "I'm surprised" Harvard received the money, he says...
...Last Wave--Harvard Film Archive...
...called mini-majors have a lock on what is shown in U.S. movie houses. More than 350 independent films were produced worldwide in 1986, an increase of nearly 60% from the previous year. While such independent cinema was once synonymous with sexploitation pictures and artsy foreign films, the new wave of modestly budgeted movies is gaining widespread acceptance at the multiplexes in Everytown, U.S.A...
...PLOT the murder, I begin to wonder if perhaps I'm being a bit hasty. Do I simply hate everyone who gets in an elevator with me? I wave my hands, dissipating enough smoke so that I can see to some degree the woman's face through the haze...
These are the theoretical scenarios. And at first 1987A seemed to be following the rules: it jumped from near invisibility to respectable brightness literally overnight, and while its wave-front speed was high, its spectrum revealed the unmistakable hydrogen-bearing signature of a Type II. But when the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite reported a rapid drop in ultraviolet light, scientists began to wonder. Says Robert Kirshner, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: "The spectrum we're seeing in the ultraviolet resembles the spectrum of a Type I. That's a puzzle." Admits Texas' Wheeler: "There are some funny features...