Word: arced
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...companies led by Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine is exploring the possibility that there may actually be oil under the city's venerable streets. Last week four 14 1/2-ton trucks completed a series of seismic tests that took them lumbering down the Champs Elysees and past such landmarks as the Arc de Triomphe, the Place de la Concorde and the Louvre...
This year's uniform collegiate 19-ft., 9-in. three-point arc is an absurdity. It is more ridiculous than the old three-to-make-two-free throws rule, far more ridiculous than the possession arrow-rather-than-jump ball rule, possibly even more ridiculous than football's instant replay regulation. Then again...
Abolishing the three-point shot in college basktball after this season would be an unnecessary loss for both the players and the fans, brought on solely by the NCAA's decision to draw the arc at an unreasonably short distance...
Such individuals obviously live under a dark cloud of medical uncertainty; how many of these individuals will go on to develop AIDS or AIDS Related Complex (ARC) is currently unknown. The latency period between infection and disease, though still not precisely known, can be at least as long as five years...
People-to-people exchanges of this kind can all too easily arc off into the stratosphere of goodwill. American participants are often at a curious disadvantage. They lean toward the view that both sides are to blame. Their Soviet counterparts agree with half of that proposition, eagerly endorsing any American selfcriticism while promulgating the doctrine of Soviet infallibility...