Word: welling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Follett's fissionable plot involves the intelligence agencies of three nations-Israel's Mossad, the Soviet KGB and Egypt's General Intelligence-as well as the fedayeen and the Mafia. It begins 20 years before the uranium theft, at, of all places, Oxford University. By not too improbable coincidence, three of the protagonists are students there: David Rostov, a Soviet who will later become an ambitious intelligence officer in Moscow; Yasif Hassan, a Palestinian who subsequently serves as a triple agent for the Egyptians, the Soviets and the fedayeen; and Nathaniel Dickstein, a cockney Jew who migrates...
Glashow's candor is characteristic of the genial working environment of the Harvard cooperative. Unlike other departments, neigh-neighboring professors often work on identical problems, and one's breakthough could well pave the way to a breakthrough by another. One graduate student says he has learned as much if not more from his fellow students than from his professors...
Those in the latter category of soundalike names are uniformly Irish--there's the usual roster of McDonoughs and an O'Leary as well, all of whom count on their last names to draw a certain percentage of their votes...
Under Question 3 the city would encourage the use of safe, renewable energy sources, as well as requesting state and federal governments not to license new nuclear power plants. Because nuclear power is not the best long-term resolution to the energy crisis, we support strong measures to develop alternatives...
...Crimson fared well among its Ivy rivals, beating out Dartmouth, Cornell, Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, following just eight points behind seventh place Brown...