Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall before him, Robin Williams, 26, did one guest spot on Happy Days and wound up on a spin-off series of his own. As the affable Mork from the planet Ork, Williams has limitless opportunities to display his manic talent. Unaccustomed to the ways of Earth, the alien sits on his head, drinks with his fingers and holds philosophical discussions with eggs...
...scientific meeting in Manhattan, Lowell Wood, a young physicist from California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, delighted his colleagues (although he did not exactly convince them) with a plan to give the earth a virtually limitless energy supply. He suggested tapping the energy of a mini-black hole in orbit around the planet. From a spacecraft orbiting at a safe distance, pellets would be fired at the hole. This would create so much heat that the energy could be converted into microwaves and beamed down to earth. Even Wheeler, who is now at the University of Texas, and his former student...
Walzer recalled Mrs. Butterfield's apparently limitless energy with great respect. "She did the secretarial work in our office with great ease, and had time left over for her many other activities," he said...
...middle way was clearly revealed in its criminal decisions this year. In contrast to the earlier years of the Burger Court, the Justices last term ruled more often in favor of defendants than of prosecutors. Last week the court ruled that juries must be allowed to weigh almost limitless mitigating circumstances, which may force many states to write more lenient death-penalty statutes. They also protected the accused's right to counsel and jury trial in two decisions, and in another refused to permit a "murder scene" exception to requiring search warrants...
Last week, as he explained once again why it is in the best interests of the U.S. to sell the Saudis 60 F-15 jet fighters, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance described Saudi Arabia as "a very important country from many, many aspects." With its seemingly limitless oil wealth, it is already an economic superpower. It is the key supplier of energy to the industrialized West and, as bankroller to nearly every other moderate Arab state (as well as two or three immoderate ones), a behind-the-scenes broker in Middle East politics...