Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rubbia's announcement last week at a meeting of physicists in New York City brought instant speculation about Nobel Prizes for him and key colleagues. The detection of the W particle is an example of extraordinary scientific sleuthing, comparable to finding a missing person in a crowd of a billion people. It also provides dramatic new support for a keystone of contemporary physics: the idea that nature's fundamental operations can be united in a single mathematical framework...
...Borg losing the 34-point tiebreaker to McEnroe in 1980, then winning the four-hour match in the fifth set. Anyway, it may have been just as well that he did not win at Flushing Meadow. On Wimbledon's lawn, Borg customarily dropped to his knees at the instant of victory. On cement, neither Stenmark nor Borg could have taken much of that...
...home, but he wasn't wearing the bar mitzvah suit I figured a producer would wear upon meeting the author," says Wouk. "I open the door, and there stands this man in black slacks, black shirt, a gold chain, curly black hair. Mr. Hollywood. This made an instant good impression. Here's a guy, I thought, who is what...
...keen interest in undergraduate society--in and out of the classroom. An administrator who goes out of his way to meet and assist students. Marquand believes that Harvard suffers from the unreasonably high expectations of students who come here anticipating the best education on earth and instant gratification in every endeavor. Once they discover the school's idiosyncrasies, students begin parroting the age-old complaints: "Classes too big, no one to tell my troubles to, departments impersonal...squawk!" With experience, most learn that a little personal initiative goes a long way, and they graduate less starry-eyed but without calamity...
...small khaki tent that shakes and rocks from the 18-wheelers roaring past on the interstate below, Mike MacKay, 30, cooks instant soup on his hot plate, clears his table on top of a portable toilet and defiantly mutters a solemn vow. "I'm set to do this for two or three years," he says. "My wife and I are determined to get a house." Pitted in a bizarre promotional contest to win an $18,000 mobile home, donated by Love Homes, a Pennsylvania firm, MacKay and two other men have been camping for the past 18 weeks...