Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These students proposed different theories that explain the lack of romance at Harvard, which I shall now present objectively without any shred of bias...
...results are posing something of a problem for theorists. Says Jeremiah Ostriker, chairman of Princeton's astrophysics department: "There is no theory using conventional physics that can explain these structures without causing other inconsistencies." Ostriker has coauthored a quite unconventional scenario involving hypothetical objects called cosmic strings. These strings, he believes, could generate explosive bursts of energy that would in turn create the bubbles...
...another idea, called the cold dark matter theory, has gathered more support. This theory postulates an as yet undiscovered form of exotic subatomic particle that pervades the universe. The presence of this mysterious "dark matter" could explain why most galaxies -- including our Milky Way -- seem, judging from measurements of gravitational forces, to contain about ten times as much invisible matter as they do visible stars, gas and dust. The existence of dark matter is needed to fill the gaps in some of the Grand Unified Theories that physicists have concocted to account for the fundamental structure of matter and energy...
...Caltech, Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study have detected the most distant quasar (an exceptionally bright starlike object) ever spotted. It is billions of light-years away, and the researchers estimate that it existed when the universe was only 7% of its present age. It is hard to explain how a quasar could be formed that early, even under the influence of cold dark matter...
...what we did recently to T. Boone Pickens, a man with a disreputable reputation. America is in decline because of American managers who only care about their short-term gains so that they can boast about them at the next shareholders' meeting. Japanese managers use shareholders' meetings to explain their long-term plans and ask shareholders to bear with limited dividends. Japan has succeeded in rebuilding its economy because it has kept its idiosyncrasies, that is to say, management philosophy, labor- management relations and company-shareholders relations based on humane feelings. We don't have to change those characteristics just...