Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandy Springer of Ashbey, Mass.: 6-ft., 2-in. "She has phenomonal jumping ability, Delaney Smith says. "She's our diamond in the rough...
English-only advocates argue that bilingualism is a barrier to a unified nation. It allows immigrants to avoid learning English and to form self- perpetuating linguistic ghettos. "English, which has been our common bond, our unifying force, is being eroded," said Stanley Diamond, chairman of the California English Campaign. Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado, an outspoken leader on the issue, echoed the idea of English as this country's social glue before a congressional committee. "We should be color-blind but not linguistically deaf," he said. "We should be a rainbow but not a cacophony. We should welcome different people...
...physicist. Some $280,000 later, the Caritas is an art-deco beauty, its 14 roomettes ripped out and replaced with a lounge, dining room, kitchen, master bedroom and an open-air platform. Richard Horstmann, 50, a political consultant from Syracuse, admits, "I can't afford this," meaning the Black Diamond, which was the private car of the Lehigh Valley Line's board chairman when Horstmann first saw it as a boy of twelve. The better to afford his dream, Horstmann fills his car with paying guests about a dozen times a year...
...debate over compact discs goes to the heart of the new medium. In analog recording, sound waves are transcribed as grooves onto a vinyl disc. The grooves are then traced by a diamond-tipped stylus in the tone arm of the turntable to re-create the sound. In digital recording, the music is sampled by a microchip at the rate of 44,100 times a second and expressed as a series of ones and zeros. Encoded in invisible "pits," the numbers are read by a player equipped with a laser beam, which relays the information to a microcomputer that converts...
...LIFE, Diamond...