Word: circular
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bobber dipped and Paul reeled in a hermit crab. "You know, there could be a kind of justice here, Hotch. I go on television all the time to hustle my films. TV gets me and my time for free, and the film gets exposure for free--mutual and circular exploitation, so to speak. Now then, if we were to go the lowest of the low road and plaster my face on a bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would stink. But to go the low road to get to the high road--for charity...
With that in mind, he spent his Saturday stranded on a circular island of grass in a rushing stream of traffic...
...problem, posed in 1990 when little Ganatra was just learning his fractions, asked whether or not one light ray could escape from any configuration of circular mirrors in a plane. Ganatra’s solution is particularly astounding in its appeal to topology—the study of the abstract shape of space—because it constituted a novel, creative approach to the problem. His fresh solution has opened doors for further research and has practical implications for the study of illumination and acoustics...
...scientists, that's where the excitement lies, not in this week's approach. The two planets come close every 26 months or so, as the closer-in, faster-moving Earth laps the slower Mars on their journeys around the sun. But Mars' orbit isn't quite circular; it's elliptical, so it's sometimes closer to and sometimes farther from the sun. (Earth's orbit is also elliptical but much less so.) When the Earth catches up at a time when Mars is relatively near the sun, there's an especially close encounter. In 1988 the planets were just...
...Where to Find the WMD I don't follow the circular reasoning in "The Next WMD Crisis" [July 28]. U.S. military action against North Korea would be justified because the country intends to survive with the help of nukes? Let's face it: Iraq was invaded because it did not have a sufficiently advanced nuclear program. Would it be any surprise if Iran and North Korea, the other two targets in the "axis of evil," are developing nukes of their own? If the U.S. is intent on spreading its insecurity around the world, that is what the world will become...