Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criminals who steal automobiles, TV sets and jewelry. "Let me dispel some myths," said Gilbert Raguideau, a French government expert on the subject. "There is no mastermind, no international art Mafia. We all have heard the legend of the mad, rich connoisseur who buys stolen masterworks. He does not exist." The works are sold to frequently unsuspecting collectors in the U.S. and abroad through dealers who care more about turning a quick profit than about checking on an object's pedigree. Says Volpe: "Everyone in the art market is buying questionable pieces. Most people ask more questions when they...
...plot of this New York City gang movie is almost nonexistent, and what does exist is tedious. The large cast is wooden; the language is flat; the humor is childish, and the content would not engage the imagination of a lesser insect. Still, it is not so easy to consign The Warriors to the junk heap. Though The Warriors is trash, it is handsome trash. It excites the eyes even as it numbs the mind...
...quantum mechanics was fundamentally incomplete. Nature, he was sure, operated by strict rules that scientists : could uncover. But because of the role of probability in quantum mechanics, Einstein felt that it failed to meet his crucial standard. The universe, he insisted, could not operate on chance. Causality had to exist. Again and again, he would say such things as "God does not play dice." Exasperated, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, Einstein's friendly adversary, finally replied, "Stop telling God what...
...Astonishing as these effects seem, they have all been verified. In designing nuclear accelerators, for example, scientists must take into account the fact that subatomic particles whipped to speeds approaching the velocity of light will appear to increase in mass. Furthermore, particles called muons, which at rest exist for only very short spans of time before decaying into other particles, are found to live far longer at high velocities...
...youngsters who gave him a present: Your gift will be an appropriate suggestion to be a little more elegant in the future than hitherto. Because neckties and cuffs exist for me only as remote memories...