Word: grails
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...most noble quests in atmospheric chemistry today," Jacob says. "It's kind of the Holy Grail, to try to understand what controls tropospheric ozone, because then you will understand a lot of other things...
...better not to regard this crew as a team at all, but rather as an ensemble of excellent actors on a goofy, lively lark. Sure, they gain and lose their elusive electronic grail the requisite number of times, often surprisingly. Their larger obligation, however, is not to the implausible plot but to their funky characters, and to the nice, wistful mood of the film. They all share a nostalgia for '60s idealism; even their nemesis (Ben Kingsley) operates out of a dark variant on those quixotic beliefs...
...infancy, the technology that enables machines to understand human speech may ultimately have as much impact on the way people do their work -- and whether some of them still have work -- as any advance since the computer. The ultimate goal of speech-recognition researchers -- what they call their Holy Grail -- is an automatic dictation machine that can listen to normal conversational speech and turn it into perfectly typed text. Such a system could carry out much of the work currently done by millions of human typists, transcribers, reporters, secretaries and stenographers...
...budget amendment to the Constitution by a vote of 280 to 153, just nine votes shy of the required two-thirds majority. The vote was a rebuff to President Bush, who has staked his dwindling prestige on amending the Constitution to mandate by fiat a balanced budget -- the holy grail of government that has eluded Presidents and legislators for the past 23 years...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail--Science Center...