Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Toronto-based outfit called the International Star Registry. Founded by Canadian Advertising Man Ivor Downie, 44, the company will assign a name, any respectable name, including those of rock and royalty, to a star in any requested constellation for a $30 fee (credit cards accepted). As proof of the cosmic christening, the registry sends back a star-spangled certificate with the orb's new name inscribed on it, together with charts ocating it in the sky and assurances that the name will be locked up safely in a vault in Switzerland and kept on file forever in the Library...
Voyager II, for showing us that this planet is only a small piece of glass in a cosmic lamp...
...Supreme Court. Corcoran went into private law practice in 1941 and, using his contacts made in Congress and federal agencies, successfully represented major businesses and defense contractors. Periodically accused of influence-peddling, he once remarked, "Every time I wag my ass on the Hill, someone reads cosmic importance into...
...last week, visions of profits had vanished into a black hole of exploding costs and collapsing sales, and the biggest challenge facing Carl Sagan Productions Inc. was what to do with a Los Angeles warehouse jammed with unsold Cosmic Calendars ($7.95), Cosmospheres ($19.95) and a book titled Visions of the Universe ($29.95). Said Lee ruefully as he strolled past an empty desk in the firm's eight-employee office: "We used to have an international division, but we closed it down. It used to sit here...
TUCHMAN'S TALENT FOR bringing historic episodes into sharp, dramatic focus has few rivals among modern writers. The words James Thurber once wrote of E.B. White could apply to Tuchman too: her sentences are "silver and crystal"; her ear "not only notes the louder cosmic rhythms, but catches the faintest ticking sounds...