Word: waves
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After sweeping the Greater Boston Championships on February 3, the Harvard track teams were riding the crest of a wave of momentum...
Thompson, who rode a wave of anti-Graham sentiment to a narrow victory in the Democratic primary in Cambridge's 28 Middlesex District, may now face a tough battle to retain his seat, which represents Riverside, Cambridgeport, Agassiz, MIT and parts of Harvard...
Even more influential than London's mounting rates, however, are West Germany's. Some economists blame the Bundesbank's late-December increase in its key interest rate, rather than the Bank of Japan's boost, for triggering January's wave of increases. The Frankfurt central bank is concerned about inflation because of West Germany's supercharged economy. In spite of the Bundesbank's credit tightening, the Frankfurt stock exchange is up 1% so far this year. The main reason: investors feel confident that West German companies will realize tremendous gains in the opening of East European markets...
...current wave of hope has an epicenter, it is at the end of a dirt lane on the grounds of Victor Verster Prison Farm, 35 miles east of Cape Town, where Mandela remains confined. There, in a comfortable three-bedroom former warder's house overlooking the vineyards of the Franschhoek Valley, Mandela rises early each morning to begin another day of appointments. The government suggests that his freedom is imminent, but even while still behind a prison fence, Mandela is already playing his self-appointed role as "facilitator...
...millimeter wave radio telescopes work by collecting information through antennas and then creating a computer image. The telescopes are able to see cold gas clouds, where stars form, earlier than optical telescopes, thereby giving a better picture of the birth of stars, Goldsmith said...