Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supernova occurs after a star runs out of fuel to power its burning core and immediately implodes. The energy released during this event rapidly expels the star's outer gases...
...When a massive star's core collapses in a supernova, the energy is partially emitted in neutrinos [according totheory]," Kirshner said. Although this idea hasbeen written about in astronomy texts for years,"now, we have actually observed [the particles],"he said...
...core question...is whether the United States has the will to reverse its competitive decline and to expand into the world market," Dukakis told a Tufts University audience...
...School will use the fund-which includes a $20 million gift from outgoing Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman John Shad-to establish a program similar to the Core curriculum, said Joseph L. Bower, an assistant B-School dean...
...celestial madonna in a surge of unexamined theological kitsch. Against this whizbangery, the actors make scant impression, although Robert Torti is an oily villain and Greg Mowry a winsome underdog. Andrew Lloyd Webber's pastiche of American pop offers histrionic passages but no memorable tunes. Worse, the races -- the core of the plot -- look contrived. When one "engine" passes another, no burst of athletic elan justifies the triumph; sometimes the jockeying for position takes place out of view, sometimes the team fated to lose just reins itself in short of the finish line...