Word: intervallic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A cornerstone of the quantum theory holds that electrons leap from one energy state to another with mathematical regularity. Von Klitzing provided a practical demonstration of the phenomenon, accurate to within 0.0000001 of a predicted interval. For the past decade, scientists have suspected that Hall voltage conforms to quantum mechanics...
In choosing Ryzhkov as Tikhonov's replacement, Gorbachev underlined his high regard for the former engineer who earned a reputation for efficiency as a manager of armaments factories in the Soviet heavy-industrybelt of the ! Urals. Transferred to Moscow's governing bureaucracy in 1975, Ryzhkov served from 1979 to 1982...
When, later that year, the Stammers moved to a farm in Serra Negra, 100 miles north of Sao Paulo, their lodger went along, taking a room in their new home. One day, about two years after Pedro joined the household, a visitor left a newspaper in the house that featured...
The results were soon evident. Within three hours the official news agency TASS announced that Gorbachev had increased the membership of the Central Committee's policymaking organ, the Politburo, from ten to 13. In the process, he diluted the influence of the Kremlin's Old Guard, which now constitutes less...
Fusco, of course, has returned in the interval, but the Class of '88 has arrived.