Word: metting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said the advisory body had not specificallyconsidered Boone's case when it last met inOctober, but she said the committee was aware ofhow any internal promotions would affect thefuture of the department and its teaching needs...
...problem in this case was that thereporting guidelines were not met, so we were notalerted to the fact that the post-doc [Tseng] hada financial interest," Bok said...
...revolutionary leader and despised as a terrorist, a leader who can be calmly reasonable or passionately shrill in the pursuit of his cause. Last week Arafat borrowed an Iraqi jet for a brief trip to Turkey, complete with a Turkish air force fighter escort. During his trip he met with assistant managing editor Karsten Prager and senior correspondent Murray J. Gart for eight hours of conversation, partly aboard his plane and also in the Baghdad headquarters that doubles as his home. While he repeated some familiar positions, he surprised his visitors with glimpses into his personal life and with...
...campaign to bring out a symbolic vote of support for segregated politics was defeated by an overwhelming boycott. Although only 26.3% of registered black voters had gone to the polls, Chris Heunis, the minister in charge of planning a new constitution, claimed that "the government's objectives were undoubtedly met." If so, the government had set decidedly modest objectives. Since only 1.5 million of the more than 20 million blacks living outside the four "independent homelands" are registered, the turnout translates into less than 2.0% of South Africa's blacks...
...tasks remain. Engineers bend over diagrams of the wiring circuits as they test connections in the mazes of wires that fill the control cabinets. The start-up countdown begins in earnest. Engineers watch the gauges as the needles begin to move. An exacting series of 14 conditions must be met before the computer will allow operation to start. When the computer is satisfied, the green prestart light goes on, the master control switch is turned to start, and the gates that let water into the turbine are opened. The generator begins to turn, slowly at first, then quickly builds...