Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were rumors that it had been made by a reporter or photographer who, as a last resort, planned to intercept Lesley Brown as she was being evacuated from the building. (She was indeed moved, but only to a different part of the hospital.) Snarled a hospital guard at a cluster of reporters who had stationed themselves just under Lesley Brown's room: "You bastards, don't you care about the baby...
...fertilized egg continues its journey, dividing as it moves through the tube. Finally, after several days, it will have become a blastocyst, a hollow, ball-shaped cluster of fewer than 100 cells. By now, it will have reached the uterus. There the blastocyst embeds itself in the uterine wall, where it begins drawing nourishment from the mother and starts the miracle of differentiation: the rapid transformation of cells into tissue that soon becomes recognizable as heart, brain, muscle, kidneys and all the other components of a living, self-sufficient being...
...enough so that inflation gradually subsides, but not so much as to sink the nation into a recession. Administration officials refer to this as guiding the economy to a "soft landing" from its too-rapid pace in the quarter just ended. Estimates of production growth in the second quarter cluster around an annual rate of 9%. Miller prefers to talk of reaching a "sustainable path of growth" of about 4% that can be followed year in, year out without either accelerating inflation or raising joblessness. A 3% rate, he says, would mean more unemployment, a 5% growth bad inflation...
Free-form jazz tends to cluster in downtown Manhattan's SoHo. One of its angels is Rivers, who runs Studio Rivbea, a nonprofit, partially subsidized loft, complete with stage for performing, and directors' chairs and rugs for the audience...
...difficult thing to contemplate the likelihood that one spent five years be ing tortured for nothing. As they cluster together around the Marriott's eight bars and omelet-shaped pool, the P.O.W.s seem compelled to approve of the life they found at home. Nearly all of them are confused, embarrassed or annoyed by their strange hero status. Says John McCain: "It doesn't take a helluva lot of talent to get shot down." Virginia Guttersen ex plains: "To a military man, the P.O.W. is a loser, the guy who didn't complete his mission. The Government made...