Word: fruition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team has worked on improving defense, counter-attack, and, this week, playing in a narrow pool. Harvard is a fast team, and therefore has a disadvantage playing in smaller pools like the one at MIT. The Crimson's performance at MIT shows that its work has come to fruition...
...Cook begins his tenure, his major goals are already approaching fruition. The arboretum is finding its place as both a resource center for scholars, and a learning ground for the young. The garden just may yield a bumper crop one day soon...
Considering how many problems Moscow and Beijing share in bringing their reform programs to fruition, it seems appropriate that the two countries announced last week that Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen would visit Moscow later this year. If Qian talks with Gorbachev, it will be the first high-level official meeting between the two countries since 1969. The move signals Beijing's approval of recent Soviet foreign policy moves, notably a reduction in Moscow-supported Vietnamese troops in Kampuchea. It also raised the possibility of a Sino-Soviet summit meeting between Gorbachev and Deng in Beijing next year. If that...
...Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. "We would be complete fools" to ignore that fact, he said. Conservative Defense Minister George Younger ridiculed Kinnock's new policy as "totally inadequate." Labor M.P. Eric Heffer, a veteran left-winger, charged Kinnock with "backsliding" and moaned that "my worst fears are coming to fruition...
Even if efforts to attract minorites to graduate schools are successful, they will not reach fruition for about 12 years, when students now beginning Ph.D programs will be up for tenure. And in the meantime, the system risks self-perpetuation because minority students may be reluctant to come to an institution where there are few minority faculty members...