Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Luke's Hospital in Phoenix, who for two years has been experimenting with the "Phoenix heart," the invention of Kevin Cheng, a dental surgeon. Vaughn was stunned; the heart was years away from FDA approval and had been tested only twice in animals. "It was like a bomb falling from the sky," he recalls. Still he agreed to helicopter to Tucson immediately with Cheng and his invention...
...know that Dunster House woman in my section for Biology 128, "Animal Viruses and Oncogenic Transformation," is already pretty far along on her anthrax bomb she's going to let loose on the Fly Club's garden party his May. It's 60 percent of the course grade, and I know she'd be pretty mad if all that work went to waste...
Unless urgent action is taken, it's only a matter of time before the debt bomb explodes. The seriousness of the situation is often lost amidst the economic jargon. Technical disputes abound over the true extent of the problem, but almost everyone agrees that, despite phony supply-side arguments to the contrary, an increasing national debt fuels both high interest rates and an overvalued dollar. Aside from the fact that mortgage financing and business investments remain prohibitively expensive and will exert an increasing drag on the current recovery, high rates force the government to devote more and more taxpayer money...
...particle , physics, has become increasingly dependent on massive computing power. Scientists using supercomputers have been able to pry into nature in a way not possible before. By simulating everything from wind turbulence to gravitational fields, they have studied the mechanisms of thunderstorms, the optimum shape of an H-bomb, even the structure of the universe. Says Cornell Physicist Kenneth Wilson, the Nobel laureate who led the lobbying effort that resulted in last week's announcement: "The stakes are enormous...
Self disapproves of his life, but as long as the cash rolls in he is powerless to change. Moreover, his swilling and wenching take place in societies where shame is archaic and judgmental a dirty word. Overdue for his flight, Fielding Goodney simply delays the plane with a phony bomb scare: "I always do it when I'm running late. They grill the latecomers but not if you're first-class. It's not economical." A Los Angeles housewife interrupts Self and a prostitute in a parked car with "Hurry it up, pal. You're in my drive...