Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your homies. Here's the gun. There's the car. Get up and go, boy.' " In other words, welcome to the big time, Jimmy. Time to prove your stuff by shooting some rivals. Try not to hit someone's mama or baby, but mainly just pull the trigger bang bang bang -- and don't lose the damned...
...only one Great Annihilator been found? The answer may be that the galactic core is ! unusually full of gas clouds; these provide lots of matter for the antimatter to run into. Other parts of the galaxy are just too empty for black holes to create much of a bang...
...certainly did; he was in fact a whiz-bang salesman for IBM and really did fulfill his annual quota for 1962 on Jan. 19 (by, he says, selling a single giant IBM 7090 computer). But fellow IBM salesmen from that period say the rest of the story is fantasy. IBM had no objection to salesmen earning more than managers, they say, and many did -- with the blessing of the managers, whose own incomes rose the more their salesmen produced. Moreover, they say, IBM was not so stupid as to deny itself revenue by forcing its best salesmen to sit idle...
...exercised options to wait at least six months before selling the stock. The rule, which accounted for the vast majority of violations by corporate insiders, served partly to reduce the potential payoff for improper trades. Now when insiders decide to unload their portfolios, they can get a bigger bang for the buck by exercising their options and immediately selling the stock. The change in the law, according to some securities experts, was a sop to Big Business. Says Levy: "The SEC has wiped an entire class of violations off the books. It didn't stop the abuses; it just pretends...
Gathering momentum as a fellow at Cambridge, Hawking calculated that the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe, must have created tiny black holes, each about the size of a proton but with the mass of a mountain. Then, upsetting the universal belief that nothing, not even light, can escape from a black hole, he used the quantum theory to demonstrate that these miniholes (and larger ones too) emit radiation. Other scientists eventually conceded that he was correct, and the black-hole emissions are now known as Hawking radiation...