Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stone and air. Here, the empty spaces, the holes in the white love knot of figures, are as interesting as the limbs, bodies and heads. Walk round it and you see a kind of interstitial fugue of tunnels, gaps and fissures. No photograph can give more than the faintest idea of how this sculpture unfolds, closes and changes under the moving...
...Analog systems, which translate sound waves captured by microphones into electronic representations -- or analogs -- amplify the background noise along with the voice, and wax < and wane depending on atmospheric conditions. Using digital technology, the new phones achieve quality equal to what earthlings get calling across town, even with the faintest signal...
...millions of dollars. Let's not kid ourselves--this is a consumer culture, and music gets listened to because it gets bought. It may be art, but distributors don't call it product for nothing . Music listeners eat the stuff, and the alternative fan is particularly finicky about the faintest touch of staleness...
Before Jerome Greer was invited to relocate from St. Louis and take a job as principal of Irving elementary school in Dubuque, Iowa, the personnel director issued a word of caution: no one in the city had the faintest idea how to cut his hair. "This is a white person's town," says Greer, who took the job last July but still gets his hair cut in St. Louis. "On my first day at school, a kid asked me whether I was Bill Cosby...
Since the first working machine was developed six years ago by a team of Cetus Corp. researchers, including biochemist Kary Mullis, PCR has enabled researchers to study even the faintest, most fragmentary traces of DNA found in specks of dried blood, strands of hair, chips of bone. In the journal Nature last week, for example, a team of British researchers recounted how they successfully identified a teenage murder victim from skeletal remains eight years old. First they extracted DNA from bone cells in the dead girl's femur. Then they obtained DNA from blood samples donated by the couple believed...