Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largely empty of matter. Scientists have assumed that this unevenness resulted from irregularities in the big bang that began the universe between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago. But that greatest of all explosions was almost perfectly uniform, as evidenced by its leftover radiation, which radio telescopes can detect in every part of the sky. Then how did such a smooth start result in a chunky cosmos...
...episode vividly reveals Chrysler's philosophy for the coming free- for-all in cars. It wants to be the automaker that can detect sudden opportunities and take swift advantage of them while rivals are still forming a committee to study the situation. The only surprise is that the latest bright idea did not come from Chairman Lee Iacocca, the man who hatched the comeback of the convertible in 1982. Instead, the America concept sprang from two of Iacocca's potential successors, Gerald Greenwald, chairman of the company's automaking division, and Harold Sperlich, its president. The automaker's stockholders will...
...between attacks, the latent herpes viruses hide out in the nerve centers, or ganglia. There they are so quiescent, expressing only five to ten of their 70 genes, that the immune system fails to detect them. Occasionally, for reasons that are poorly understood but that usually involve stress, fatigue, sexual activity and even sunburn, the immune system can no longer keep the hibernating viruses in check; they awaken, reproduce and head for the skin. "As long as the virus remains latent in the ganglia, it remains shielded," says Bernard Roizman, a leading herpes researcher at the University of Chicago...
Grenouille doesn't just detect scents--he digests them, dissects them, and then preserves the essence of their individual components in the redolent storehouse of his mind. And whether smells are fresh and sweet or spoiled and foul, Grenouille devours them all with equal delight...
...that the incessant squabbling within American negotiating teams between moderates and hard-liners makes progress glacially slow. At recent bargaining sessions, says one well-placed U.S.S.R. official, the tensions and disagreements on the American side were "if not right out in the open, then very easy for us to detect." Some of Reagan's advisers are dissatisfied too, and had begun to discuss opening some sort of "back channel" to Moscow before Gorbachev in effect proposed the ultimate back channel, one running through the top leaders...