Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tight defense by the Green and its held the Crimson in the second quarter, while Dartmouth tallied four to leave the Crimson in the familiar position of trailing big at the half...
...sometimes arcane vocabulary of the space program, the oft-repeated phrase "Roger, Houston," uttered with a kind of professional jauntiness, has always sounded reassuringly familiar. But as plans for defense-oriented space missions begin to take shape, it is apparent that future military astronauts communicating with ground control may punctuate their messages with the more mellifluous "Roger, Colorado." The reason is the Air Force's $1.15 billion, 640-acre Consolidated Space Operations Center, now rising on the barren prairie just outside of Colorado Springs...
Taking a cue from the old, familiar "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" theme. Pepsi bought the world a superstar. And ever since Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie have been plugging Pepsi on TV to starry-eyed youngsters, sales have been...
...followed by the land animals highest on the food chain, the dinosaurs. Eventually the iridium-enriched debris, circulating around the world in the atmosphere, would have settled like a sprinkling of black snow over much of the globe. (It was the Alvarezes' theory that helped to shape the now familiar concept of nuclear winter...
Among the various astronomers who considered and promptly rejected the galactic carrousel notion was California's Muller, a scientist obsessed by periodicity. If a familiar cosmic mechanism could not account for the cyclic nature of extinctions, he decided, something completely different would have to do. During Christmas break in 1983, Muller and fellow Astronomers Marc Davis of Berkeley and Piet Hut of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton were brainstorming about stars and periodicity, when Muller noted that more than half the stars in the galaxy are thought to be binaries (pairs of stars that orbit a common center...