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Word: put (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Athletic Department put in a new softball field, and did extensive draining, leveling and reseeding of the chronically wet portions of the fields...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Cross-Campus Construction Transforms Harvard's Skyline | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

Alarmed by the prospect of a studentless search, outgoing Undergraduate Council chair Guhan Subramanian '92 put in his two cents, sending a letter to Corporation member/search committee chair Charles P. Slichter '46 urging him to solicit student opinion in selecting a new president. University officials said that Slichter was indeed planning to seek student input, but that it would not be as important as Subramanian hoped it would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: While You Were Away . . . | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

Most business texts credit engineer Ted Hoff at Intel Corp., based in Santa Clara, Calif., with having fathered the microprocessor between 1969 and 1971. But Hyatt asserts that he put together the requisite technology a year earlier at his short-lived company, Micro Computer Inc., whose major investors included Intel's founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Micro Computer invented a digital computer that controlled machine tools, then fell apart in 1971 after a dispute between Hyatt and his venture-capital partners over sharing his rights to that invention. Noyce and Moore went on to develop Intel into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Invented Microprocessors? | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...four factions succeed in drawing up plans for the supreme council when they meet this month in Jakarta, the U.N. plan would be put before the General Assembly for a vote. The agreement, which signals an end of superpower sponsorship of the warring groups, could be the most compelling argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: Breaking New Ground | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Political reform does not necessarily put food on the table, as Bulgarians and Romanians are learning. In Sofia last week, several hundred rioters stormed, ransacked and torched the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party, the former Communists. That triggered a protest by thousands of police, who demanded the resignation of incompetent commanders and a more independent force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: Short Supplies, Short Tempers | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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