Word: aligners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medicine, superconducting magnets are at the heart of magnetic resonance- imaging machines. The magnets' powerful fields first align the atoms of the body. Then a pulse of radio waves knocks them momentarily out of alignment. When the atoms return to their previous attitudes, they emit radiation that produces detailed images of the body's soft tissues. MRI machines in use today are enormous (6 ft. by 8 ft. by 10 ft.), largely because of the more than $100,000 worth of bulky insulation required to preserve the liquid helium coolant, which costs an additional $30,000 annually. The improved economics...
...been displaced by Marcos loyalists. With power based in land, commerce and manufacturing, they seek an open, minimally regulated economy in which they can reestablish their dominance. A political elite, also once powerful, but displaced by Marcos' followers, are typically non-ideological, but ambitious and tend to align themselves with the economic elite...
Eric V. Puchala, president of the BU Political Forum, says that because the South African government appointed Buthelezi to lead the 6 million Zulus--and that the Zulus must align themselves with the Zulu party--Buthelezi actually "suppresses" opposition to apartheid...
...women for special benefits is discriminatory and dangerous. For this reason, NOW and the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union are in effect supporting a legal challenge to the California law brought by a Los Angeles bank. Friedan says it is "outrageous" for feminists to align themselves with an employer who is trying to evade offering important benefits to women. NOW and the A.C.L.U. say they do not support the bank and simply want the law's benefits for women extended to men. Says Joan Bertin, associate director of the A.C.L.U. women's group: "The question...
Asked to indicate whether their candidate choices would align ac- cording to Cambridge's several political camps, some 44 percent of voters said they do not vote slate politics...