Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hart, the news media made a sensational front-page news story out of a personality story. The New York Times ran a front-page profile of a Miami bit-part actress. It also ran "day after" polls which reflect sensational responses to sensational stories, not stable public opinion. This approach to news is more than bad judgment. It shows complete disregard for the power of the media to affect campaigns, and for its responsibility to make a story as prominent as it is important...
...many metals when they are cooled to temperatures within several degrees of absolute zero, or, as scientists prefer to designate it, 0 Kelvin. Absolute zero, equivalent to -460 degrees F or -273 degrees C, represents a total absence of heat; it is the coldest temperature conceivable. As the + metals approach this frigid limit, they suddenly lose all their electrical resistance and become superconductors. This enables them to carry currents without the loss of any energy and in some cases to generate immensely powerful magnetic fields. Scientists have recognized for years that the implications of this phenomenon could be enormous...
That was the situation in 1983 when Karl Alex Muller, a physicist at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland, decided to pursue an approach to superconductivity that had met with limited success in the past. Instead of using the kind of metallic alloys that held the existing record, he turned his attention to the metallic oxides (compounds of metals and oxygen) known as ceramics. Some theorists had suggested ceramics as potential superconductors even though they were poor conductors at room temperatures. In fact, ceramics are often used as insulators-for example, on high-voltage electric- transmission lines...
...many unhappy people are unable to approach sex as the beautiful, guilt-free thing that it really is. These people have hang-ups, and, if ridiculed properly, can develop severe insecurities and doubts about their self-worth. Some of these people are also very wealthy. In order to help them, I, Rutger Fury, have abandoned journalism for the burgeoning industry of sex therapy...
This bifocal approach to the U.S. is hardly new: J.B. Priestley and his wife Jacquetta Hawkes did it in Journey Down a Rainbow 30 years ago. Nor is the Nicolson credulity a blessing: Adam describes a movie executive as "one dissertation short of a PhD at Harvard . . . Sometimes -- that was the crucial word -- he didn't think the hassle was worth the money." Generally, however, the men breeze through their missions with the jaunty patrician charm of the charmed. The cross fire of their letters -- a burst from Nigel, a counterburst from Adam -- is the British equivalent of the nautical...