Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sound can't be captured on tape. No scientific instrument, regardless how sensitive, can detect it. But for millions of chocolate lovers, the nagging call of a Godiva bar or a Hershey's Kiss is as loud and impossible to ignore as an air-raid siren. It can't simply be that the stuff tastes good. So do popcorn and pizza, but the words popaholic and pizzaholic haven't forced their way into the lexicon the way chocoholic has. Chocolate doesn't just tingle the tongue: it makes people feel good in some fundamental, undefinable...
...missions to Mars. The first, the Mars Global Surveyor, is an orbiter that will arrive in September 1997 and spend at least four months circling the planet and mapping its geology and climate. Despite its small size (10 ft. tall; 2,300 lbs.), the spacecraft carries quite an instrument load, including magnetometers to measure magnetic fields, a laser altimeter that can gauge the height of surface features to within 30 ft., and optical cameras that can detect objects as small...
Williams was wanted by the HUPD for larceny over $250, uttering a false instrument and forgery, after he flim-flammed a Harvard student outside the Malkin Athletic Center...
...used to just kill ourselves laughing when movie actors did Texas accents. People always sounded like the Clampetts. But Gwyneth did the most impeccable Texas accent in Flesh and Bone. She has an amazing ear. And, of course, everything else is perfect. Her speaking voice is a beautiful instrument, and she photographs like a dream--all the light goes to her on the set, and she seems to absorb it and then give it back...
...certain it represented a disastrous trend in the campaign, the Americans set out to prove their point after the fact. They replayed excerpts of the address--and some other film footage and still photographs of Yeltsin--for an audience of 40 Russians wired to a "perception analyzer," an instrument often used in the U.S. Audiences have their hands on dials and are asked to move them in different directions to indicate their degree of interest and approval of what they are seeing and hearing. An electronically produced chart records their reactions...