Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zurichers confirmed their result, which other researchers duplicated and then tried to beat. A slow-moving branch of physics became a horse race as laboratories around the world attempted to push temperatures higher. Last week's announcement does not end the competition. Says Paul Fleury, director of AT&T Bell Laboratories' Physical Research Laboratory: "It took physicists 75 years to raise superconductivity temperatures by 19 degrees. We have more than doubled that in the last 75 days. We're now dealing with new science, and we don't know what the upper limits...
Maher is this week's headliner. If his name doesn't ring a bell, his face probably will. A veteran of many appearences on the Carson and Letterman shows, Maher simply is a funny guy. A graduate of Cornell, a private college in upstate New York, Maher's slight lisp, devilish chuckle and sly grin are those of the eternal class clown. His 45-minute routine--which nonetheless seemed to end too soon--traversed all of the stock subjects of stand-up. But his observations and insights on life at home, life at college, getting older, drugs, politics...
When a company is successfully taken over, its headquarters town becomes especially vulnerable. Blue Bell, the manufacturer of Wrangler jeans, shut down its Greensboro, N.C., headquarters after the company was acquired by VF Corp. That put 300 people out of work and meant the end of Blue Bell's strong support of Greensboro's arts and civic activities. Thirty miles to the west, Winston-Salem was dealt a similar blow after R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands in 1985. Last month RJR Nabisco announced it will move its corporate headquarters from Winston-Salem to Atlanta, taking along not only some...
...expect that the report will come out withina few weeks," said Kumar Patel, a chief physicistat Bell Labs and co-chairman of the committee...
...libel suit over The Bell Jar sends a paradoxical message to writers and filmmakers: when you make things up, tell the truth...