Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration argued that the best and brightest should not be in Government but in the private sector creating wealth...
...brightest pups out of coaching legend Paul Brown, San Francisco' s Bill Walsh and Cincinnati' s Sam Wyche, promise that rarity, a Super Bowl with imagination. Wyche' s quick- snap offense has strained the very laws of pro football. San Francisco rides with the game' s premier quarterback, Joe Montana, who is heading into his third Super Sunday...
Last year, Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner '70 thought he was a lucky man to observe during his lifetime one of the brightest supernova explosions our region of the universe has seen in centuries. But this year, he thinks his luck may have doubled...
Kirshner says another use for supernovae data is as a "yardstick for measuring the geometry of space." As they explode, supernovae are the brightest stars in the universe. By measuring its chemical and physical characteristics from its emitted light spectra, one can check to see if the universe is still expanding and at what rate, he says...
...mount a thimble-size metal earth on a coat hanger in the middle of a melon-size clear-plastic sphere that is supposed to be the universe. The students then use Magic Markers to trace onto the universe a computer-drawn map of a few hundred of the brightest stars in the night sky. They draw a line around the sphere to represent the ecliptic, or path of the sun through the constellations, and then they are ready for some gnarly astronomy...