Word: plus
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...There is a fundamental problem in that the scientific approach is so layered," Dibadj says. "You have to get introductory math and physics and chemistry out of the way before you can take really interesting design courses. Plus you have to fill all the [Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology] (ABET) requirements, which are very strict," he adds...
Cookie Monster: Michael Milken, Leona Helmsley, the Harvard Management Corporation--we all know greed. Cookie Monster is that cute, cuddly creature who goes absolutely bonkers at the mention of cookies. Just substitute "$65,000 plus performance bonus!" for "cookie!" and you can set off the same frenzy at the Office of Career Services...
...along the border plea- bargain these cases away," says immigration expert Simcox. "A smuggler often gets off with the confiscation of his vehicle, which is seen as just a cost of doing business." In the case of Filipino smuggler Dulay, federal agents seized $165,000 in his savings account, plus four cars. Dulay was sentenced to 21 months in jail and will probably go free in August...
...days, Secretary of State James Baker met with his NATO and European Community counterparts in Brussels, then conferred with German leaders and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Bonn. The next day he proceeded to the Foreign Ministry to discuss the future of Germany at the so-called Two-Plus-Four talks, the six-nation group composed of West and East Germany and the four Allied powers of World War II (the U.S., the Soviet Union, France and Britain...
...thornier issue is Bush's demand that a united Germany be a full- fledged member of NATO. The issue dominated the opening round of the Two- Plus-Four talks. Washington's position is endorsed by European governments on both sides of the old divide. They feel that the new Germany must be "embedded" in a joint security system -- NATO, at least for now -- just as it is in the European Community. The Europeans count on America's strategic nuclear umbrella to keep the Germans from reversing their treaty promises not to develop nuclear weapons...