Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks. And during the interval, members of both parties in Congress are doing the same thing. Playing politics. With a vengeance. Even a Medici might marvel at the maneuvering on Capitol Hill, designed to take partisan advantage of every issue and to dazzle voters with a wondrous array of illusions and images. "Everyone is posturing," protests Democratic Congressman Leon Panetta of California. In the meantime, the legislators are willing to let the nation's urgent business be ignored...
...that positive statistic stands out amid an otherwise sobering array. During the past decade, the number of people on earth increased by 770 million, to 4.75 billion. The World Bank estimates that in 2025, a date within the foreseeable lifetime of most Americans under 30, global population could nearly double, to about 8.3 billion. Of that total, about 7 billion will be residents of the undercapitalized, undernourished Third World...
...what it had failed to do. What infuriated Urban was Washington's apparent initial tepid response to Warsaw's sweeping amnesty for 652 political prisoners. To Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski's regime, the amnesty clearly lived up to Washington's conditions for lifting an array of painful economic sanctions imposed after Poland declared martial law in 1981. But the Reagan Administration seemed to Warsaw to be dragging its feet. If amnesty is not enough, cried Urban, "what does the U.S. Government really want...
...that began to change in 1980 when the National Radio Astronomy Observatory inaugurated the Very Large Array (VLA), an extraordinary $78.3 million string of 27 radio telescopes set out like giant Dixie cups across 21 miles of the desert of New Mexico. The VLA is one of a kind: the separate signals received by the 27 instruments can be melded into a single seamless picture, providing scientists with huge, highly detailed portraits of the heavens. Pointing the VLA toward the galactic center, Yusef-Zadeh and his Columbia colleague, Don Chance, along with Astronomer Mark Morris of UCLA, mapped...
...dust was a maternity ward for new stars. Now the strange arc has revealed itself as one mighty source of those waves, raising the startling possibility that the middle of the Milky Way is a barren womb. Seeking to solve the mysteries, astronomers will return to the Very Large Array again and again, tracking the motion of the gas within the filaments and possibly the origins of the dynamo at the core of the galaxy, where the answer to many questions may be revealed...