Word: circularity
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...your arms up. Move it, keep it going." Although she has just won her third consecutive U.S. figure-skating championship, Dorothy Hamill is training again. She has been up since 5 a.m., on the ice at Twin Rinks since dawn. First she practiced school figures, tracing and retracing circular designs, skating backward and forward in perfect circles. Now it is nearly noon. Sweating and struggling to maintain her radiant smile, Dorothy, 19, is skating her freestyle program. As she swirls over the ice, leaping and spinning at presto pace, Twin Rinks Pro Peter Burrows shouts instructions. "Push it, give...
...seated person turns to the right to look directly behind, he invariably first shifts his upper body slightly to the left. Such a movement could have aligned the two men to account for the single-bullet wounds. Moreover, the wound in Connally's back is not neatly circular; its vertical dimension is longer. Only a bullet that has struck something else and is tumbling would leave such a mark. The shape of Connally's thigh wound indicates that this turning bullet entered his leg backward. Lattimer's test firings of the powerful bullets into human-cadaver wrists...
...long banned competition from private mail services, and it was tightened in 1934 after public utilities started delivering their own bills. The law does permit home delivery of newspapers to a separate box and private delivery of such non-first-class material as magazines and ad circulars that can be hung on doorknobs, in plastic bags, or pushed through a mail slot in the door. But in the mailbox itself, only mail with U.S. postage is legal. Without a monopoly, the service fears being stuck with costly deliveries to remote areas, while the more easily handled and economical urban...
Moreover, the process is not merely circular but also dynamic. Competition keeps wiping out the inefficient businessmen, rewarding those who can turn out the most goods at the lowest prices and forcing even them to keep reinvesting their profits in new products or better operating methods if they want to stay ahead of their rivals. As a result, production keeps rising, pulling up wages ("The liberal reward of labor . . . is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth") and distributing to everyone more of "the necessaries, conveniences and amusements of human life...
...strip of a highway, rising and falling and tilting, meant to be seen as a changing sculpture from the windows of swiftly passing cars. The largest-not yet built-is a 1½ acre project for Bedminster, N.J.: a low, subtly broken plane cutting across the center of a circular amphitheater...