Word: linearly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic problem, according to City Manager Robert W. Healy, is Cambridge's high auto density. "Well, you're looking at a city with more linear miles of automobiles than street," Healy says. "There is no simple solution...
Obviously, the printed page, the linear medium, divorces information from time: one can go back and reread and think more and read again, because the words are frozen upon the page and therefore have a sort of timeless status. TV rushes headlong through real time, and given the constrictions of schedule, it is often a second-rate instrument with which to pursue the truth. The written word can commit the profoundest treacheries with the truth, but the hope of writing is at least to preserve the active integrity of the brain that is receiving the words. Television, flowing into...
...formula that served him so well in The Hunt for Red October (1984) and Red Storm Rising (1986): describe enough hardware and any plot can seem plausible. Clancy occasionally hits his old stride ("Pellets fired from a shotgun disperse radially at a rate of one inch per yard of linear travel"), but this time out he concentrates on his human characters, a subject apparently beyond the range of his research. Patriot Games is a minefield of unintended comedy. When, for instance, the Princess announces that she is two months pregnant, Ryan knows just what the etiquette of the situation demands...
...doesn't have to be linear...
...capable of carrying the high electric currents necessary for generating strong magnetic fields. And no one has yet fashioned the inherently brittle material into a wire flexible enough to be wound into effective coils, though many research groups have reported progress. Says Burton Richter, director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center: "It took 25 years to turn the present superconductors from a laboratory curiosity into something that could be made into miles of cable. These are even more difficult materials to work with...