Word: fault
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movements. The success of the evening depends so entirely on the performers' ability to harmonize the three elements of sound, movement, and light that a flawed performance by any one would ruin the whole. And the dancers' execution, in the limited scope they have set themselves, is hard to fault. The attractiveness of these two dancers lies in their fine sense of timing, of rhythm, and in their gracefully controlled exuberance...
...broken by the press lord's well-known preoccupation with the balance sheet. But that has not happened. Newhouse has appeared at the Plain Dealer only once since he bought it and has not followed his usual practice of holding down editorial staff. He obviously has no fault to find with a paper that has been increasing its circulation about 10,000 a year...
Historian Irving argues that lack of governmental support was the basic cause of the Nazis' nuclear failure. But some of his anecdotes suggest that the German scientists themselves were at fault. After Physicist Walther Bothe calculated that graphite would not be an effective "moderator"-the material that slows down neutrons in a reactor-no German scientist thought to question him. Instead, the Germans turned to heavy water for a moderator. However, they were hamstrung for the remainder of the war when an Allied sabotage team crippled the world's only heavy-water plant, at Vemork in occupied Norway...
...relationship of man using machine is presented initially, then discarded in favor of an equal balance between the two (HAL, for example, asks Bowman to show him some sketches, then comments on them). This equilibrium where men and machine perversely share characteristics shatters only when HAL mistakenly detects a fault in the communications system. The HAL computers cannot make mistakes and a confirmation of the error would necessitate disconnection. At this point the balance shifts again: Bowman asks HAL to explain his mistake and HAL denies it, attributing it to "human error"; we are reminded of the maxim...
...world, Rouse picked a seismic zone off the coast of Chile and projected it into an imaginary flat surface or plane slicing through the earth. He discovered that along the circle formed where the plane intersected the surface of the earth there were other earthquake and major fault zones-in the Pyrenees Mountains, the Red Sea and the western tip of South America. During the next three weeks, Rouse projected the planes of other earthquake zones to form 15 additional circles, or belts, on the earth's surface...