Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Number theory is at a wonderful stage nowadays...It is central to much of mathematics," Mazur said. "Number theory certainly draws its inspiration and its tools from many branches of mathematics, and, especially these days, also from physics...
Indeed, the philosophy of consistency has been central to Harvard's success this year. Coach Bern Noac has emphasized that by simply finishing fourth on average in any set of races, the team is capable of winning a regatta in the overall standings...
While a Divx deck can run DVDs, it also plays its own disks. Divx decks plug into the TV, just like DVD drives. But they plug into the phone line too. When you first set up your deck, you must establish an account with Divx central--your machine calls a toll-free number, and you key in credit-card information. (The player automatically calls headquarters once or twice a month in the middle of the night, which I find creepy.) You see, rather than simply renting Divx disks, you buy them outright, for $4.50, and never return them...
...central linguistic motif of some of his political poems became of use to him, as he noted in his lectures, when he approached the translation of Beowulf. A motif of his political poems is the conflict between the rich vowel sounds of the Irish language and the consonant-heavy word-clumps of the Anglo-Saxon. In approaching the Beowulf translation, Heaney faced a different problem--cramming what he called the "giant ingots" of the Anglo-Saxon tongue into the "itty bitty tiny" parameters of moden English, parameters Heaney has broken through with consummate skill in much of his own poetry...
...when an event promises to focus a lot of attention on the University, central publicity officials team up with their Kennedy School counterparts to organize coverage...