Word: glare
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...which contaminates celestial images. That's why NASA's plan to launch a Next Generation Space Telescope by 2009 still makes sense. With an 8-m mirror of its own, NGST will be able to see distant galaxies, for example, that no earthly telescope could ever see through the glare of its own heat...
Inside the cavernous gymnasium, engineers set the temperature at an agreed-upon 59 degrees Fahrenheit while technicians adjusted lights to ensure that neither candidate would suffer from glare...
...posing and strutting, the women seem to have bypassed the posturing lessons and gone straight for serious concentration. Their version of the sport avoids the theatrics of some of their male counterparts and cuts straight to business. Out of the dressing room and onto the stage, alone in the glare of the spotlights, they plant their feet, carefully place one talcum-powdered hand at a time onto the bar, focus on some distant spot and lift...
Watching Masatoshi Ono, CEO of Bridgestone/Firestone, sweat under the nasty glare of Congress during last week's tire-recall hearings, you almost had to feel sorry for the reserved Japanese executive. Ono, a lifelong company man and engineering whiz who joined Bridgestone straight out of university more than 40 years ago, has spent the better part of the past decade propping up the sagging fortunes of Firestone, the U.S. company Bridgestone paid $2.6 billion for in 1988. Now here he was, the prime suspect in the the biggest consumer scare since the Tylenol-tampering case, linked to at least...
Tiger has changed since he left school, but he has matured in the glare of intense public scrutiny that has at times proved painful. So Woods has adjusted, in some sense refining his personality in much the way he has his golf swing--purposefully and with great success...