Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never known, for example, what it's like to have lunch at the long tables in the Faculty Club," Kanon said...
...they are not animal, vegetable and mineral. In fact, all the matter most people are familiar with can be subsumed within one family of particles. This family includes the common electron, which hovers around the nucleus of the atom; the "up" and "down" varieties of quarks, now known to be the constituents of protons and neutrons; and an obscure particle known as the electron neutrino. Neutrinos have no charge and no measured mass, yet are thought to be among the most abundant particles in the universe...
These odds were calculated by observing the behavior of the Z particle, the heaviest known unit of matter. Zs are produced in the collision of smaller particles that have been accelerated to nearly the speed of light. By creating large numbers of Z particles, physicists were able to establish the energy range required to form a Z. Working backward from that energy range, they then calculated whether the laws of nature could accommodate more than the three known types of matter. Last week's results made it more than likely that the answer...
RICO, put on the books in 1970, was aimed at organized crime--more specifically at Italian crime families known as the Mafia. Prosecutors were troubled that mobsters could keep running their businesses during criminal trials and even after convictions. Congress responded by passing powerful legislation permitting the seizure of "enterprises" that derive money from illegal activities. They also provided the extraordinary remedy of triple damages--meaning that courts could assess damages at three times the amount of injury actually suffered...
...following map, covering some of the widest territory of any of the archival maps found in recent years, was unearthed recently near the ancient meeting grounds of the early humanoid known as Homo Careerist. Dr. Kent Palmer, professor of precivilization business sociology at the University of Canton, has written that this map represents the clearest representation of the career possibilities open to our ancestors that we have found yet. Palmer has spent 15 years deciphering the symbols on the map, and he believes that the early careerists used different symbols to represent different possible futures. (Palmer also notes that...