Word: banging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When people call," Phillips said, "I just have to bang on the phone a few times. I've got the technique down now. The person on the other end can hear me, so it should be okay...
...Huchre, a director of the Baltimore-based project, says that the device will be used mainly to examine known objects more closely and will have little effect on the big bang theory. "It's going to do cosmology in the small sense," he says. Joseph Silk of the University of California at Berkeley agrees, saying that the ST will have only an indirect impact on big bang research. However, "We'll have a better understanding of galactic evolution, and you have to know that to understand the earlier universe," he says...
...Arrival at the Loeb. Ford and VanDyke bang on the door. Three cast members of "Death of Santiago" cautiously let the two in once they see the SafeStreets reflective sashes. Apparrently, the caller has decided to go it alone but the escorts search both sides of the theater anyway. Mission aborted. The escorts head back into the rain...
...million, little changed. The gold rushes of the late 1800s brought hordes of prospectors, beginning a boom-and-bust cycle that continues to this day. Says Celia Hunter, a lodge keeper who came to the territory 42 years ago: "Alaskans have always looked for the big bang that would solve all their problems." Some development schemes were downright absurd. In the late 1950s, Hunter helped quash a proposal to use atom bombs to blast an artificial harbor out of the northern coast. "The argument even then was jobs, jobs, jobs," she says...
...mistakenly shot down an Iranian passenger jet last July, killing all 290 passengers and crew members. Eight months later, his wife was driving to her job as a fourth- grade teacher at the elite La Jolla Country Day School. As she paused for a red light, Rogers heard a bang in her Toyota van; she leaped out, unharmed, just before the vehicle burst into flames. Investigators believe a terrorist pipe bomb was placed in the van in retaliation for the downing of the Iranian airliner...