Word: circularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hundreds of feet beneath the ground outside the Swiss town of Meyrin, near Geneva, a six-year, $660 million construction project is rushing toward a payoff. Workers at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) have excavated a 12-ft.-wide circular tunnel that is 16 miles in circumference, installed nearly 5,000 powerful electromagnets, and put along the ring four massive detectors, each weighing several tons but sensitive to the passage of a single subatomic particle. This week, if all goes according to plan, technicians will begin test runs of the largest scientific instrument in the world...
Dardis' facts are usually more complete, but the conclusions he draws from them are often just as forced. His arguments for the artistic merits of O'Neill's sobriety rely on circular logic. If O'Neill wrote badly sober, Dardis would maintain that alcohol was still in his system and clouded his thinking. If he wrote well drunk, it was a fluke...
...says. He hefts the cat a few times to show how light it is. The cat lies curled in a circle in Weber's hand, the way cats do when lounging. Its unblinking yellow eyes are fixed for eternity on its tail. Weber gestures with the cat toward a circular cat bed, hollowed out in the center like a large doughnut. "The owner wanted it the way he always remembered it," Weber says. He lowers the cat to its bed. "See!" he says, still beaming. "A perfect fit! It's something else, isn't it? Have I got an idea...
...present system we live in is a male-dominated system. It's hierarchical. When women are left in change of things, they have a horizontal structure, a circular structure. The power is shared," Mason adds...
...Harry's Bar on the corner of Beach and Essex Streets, a group of bearded guys wearing flannel shirts sit around a circular bar listening to Motown from the Jukebox. One of them gets up, taps somebody on the shoulder and says, "Hey bud, you got a problem...