Word: faint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Square. Reporter Nancy Traver, herself a veteran of two Red Square state funerals in her 1 1/2 years with TIME, checked the new Politburo lineup during the televised funeral and interviewed Muscovites for their reactions to the change of leadership. Under a gray sky shimmering with tiny, faint snowflakes, and armed once again with his binoculars, Amfitheatrof watched Gorbachev, now the Soviet leader, atop the Lenin Mausoleum. "He looked somber but strikingly youthful and tough," says Amfitheatrof. But reporting on Gorbachev's accomplishments, life and health will not be Amfitheatrof's concern. He is leaving the Soviet Union...
...Staff Donald Regan had called in Stockman to tell him that his gibes were upsetting the President and advised him to pipe down. The Budget Director obediently offered only relatively bland testimony last week, but that did not quiet his critics. When he was briefly hospitalized after feeling faint at a dinner party, a cruel gag promptly circulated on Capitol Hill that he had actually undergone a transplant to give him a human heart...
...someone dammed with faint praise in the preseason media guide: "has an accurate jump shot when left alone...
...fact that any pictures and information reached J.P.L. from Uranus is remarkable in itself. Signals from Voyager's transmitter, traveling at the speed of light, required 2 hours and 45 minutes to traverse the 1.84 billion miles between the spacecraft and the earth, and were incredibly faint when they arrived. To enhance the transmissions, nasa picked them up with antennas at all three of its Deep Space Network complexes in California, Australia and Spain, and combined them electronically. Still, the combined signals were so weak that NASA engineers had to slow down the transmission rate so that information could...
...image. Gathering sufficient photons to register an image is accomplished by either taking long-exposure photographs or using a larger mirror system to collect the light. Many astronomical photographs already take hours to make, but even then not enough photons can be gathered for a clear view of very faint objects. Hence the need for bigger mirrors. Complains Palomar Observatory Director Gerry Neugebauer: "We're photon starved...