Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike their escorts, however, female ball-goers face a dizzying array of apparel choices. Basically, anything that wouldn't look ridiculous beside a tuxedo goes. Gown lengths range from floor length to well above the knee, and most dresses are usually made of some combination of lace, taffeta, silk, satin and velvet...
...then as now, was a neighborhood of two-story row houses with small, well-tended yards, awnings over the windows and crucifixes above the doors. Most of its residents were Italian and middle class. She would pass mom-and-pop stores, funeral parlors, and butcher shops that displayed an array of Italian sausages in the window. On her right, she often glanced at an inconspicuous red brick building known, oddly enough, as the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club. It caught her attention because there were always men loitering out front. She recalls wondering, What do these...
...Sears catalog" of psychological tests. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory is indeed one of the oldest, longest and most cumbersome tests in use today. Millions of people in at least 46 countries, from psychotics to normal job seekers to Soviet cosmonauts, have puzzled their way through its seemingly endless array of odd and eerie statements (samples: "Much of the time my head seems to hurt all over"; "My soul sometimes leaves my body"; "In walking, I am very careful to step over sidewalk cracks"). Now, at age 44, the archetypal test is getting a face-lift. "This revision is long...
...plastic squares joined by a cunning latticework of plastic threads: "Fishing line pretty much," he says. The key to Rubik's Magic Puzzle, which he has been working on for two years, is the thread and a special hinge allowing the linked squares to be rearranged in a countless array of three-dimensional configurations. "I haven't been able to calculate it," says Rubik with a trace of mischief. "No one has so far." The Hungarian entrepreneur, however, has had no trouble calculating the commercial potential of his new gizmo, which is about to go on sale...
...Democratic-controlled House, with Republicans in overwhelming accord, abandoned budgetary restraints -- and perhaps a few constitutional ones as well -- by passing a bill that would throw as much as $4 billion over the next three years into a wide array of antidrug efforts, permit the military to protect the country's borders from drug trafficking and impose a federal death penalty on those who commit murder while dealing in drugs. Across the country candidates were not only trying to top their opponents with radical proposals for tackling the problem but were challenging one another to urinating contests as a demonstration...