Article: Word Link.(News Review)(synonyms)(Brief Article)

Article: News review.(Brief Article)
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;  January 21, 2005 ;     660 words ...Just the Facts Indicate the answer that best completes each statement or answers each question by writing A, B, or C in each blank. -- 1. What is Barry Bonds suspected of doing? (A) using steroids, (B) betting on baseball, (C) stealing bases -- 2. Which is not a side effect of steroids? (A) severe

Article: Word link.(News Review)(Brief ...
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;  September 12, 2003 ;     458 words ...Indicate the best synonym for each word in blue below by placing A, B, or C in each blank. -- 1. grueling (adj (A) exhausting, very tiring; (B) risky, dangerous; (C) relaxing, restful -- 2. escalate (v (A) to reduce, lessen; (B) to escape, break loose; (C) to increase, intensify -- 3. stringent

Article: Word link. (News Review).(Brief ...
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication;  February 8, 2002 ;     361 words ...Indicate the best synonym for each word in blue below by placing A, B, or C in each blank. -- 1. indictment (n (A) verdict, final ruling, (B) evidence, proof, (C) a formal charge or statement -- 2. deportation (n (A) journey, voyage, (B) expulsion, banishment, (C) invitation, request -- 3. heinous

Article: Welsh museums.(News review)(Brief ...
Apollo;  July 1, 2004 ;     619 words ...Forty-three percent of storage space in Welsh museums is in a poor or worse condition, a recent report has revealed. Various objects--generally not the most prized--have become damaged as a result. It would take twenty newly created staff twenty years to overcome the problem completely. Moreover,

Article: Bloomsbury Auctions.(News review)(Brief ...
Apollo;  July 1, 2004 ;     627 words ...Bloomsbury Auctions, London, is expanding to cover new fields beyond books. It has changed its name from 'Bloomsbury Book Auctions' and has moved to Maddox Street, within walking distance of Sotheby's and Christie's. The most prominent new department is 'Impressionist, modern and contemporary',

Article: Dumfries House.(News review)(Brief ...
Apollo;  July 1, 2004 ;     605 words ...Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland, an eighteenth-century house complete with much of its original furniture, is to be sold by its owner, the Marquess of Bute. Designs for the house were discussed with William Adam, and after his death his sons Robert and John built it; the furniture, which

Article: Gulbenkian Prize.(News Review)(Brief ...
Apollo;  June 1, 2004 ;     500 words ...[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: The second annual 100,000 [pounds sterling] Gulbenkian Prize, which is awarded for excellence in changing the public perception of museums, was won last month by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art for its recent landscaping project. The front lawn of the